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música

Portuguese, noun

música is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “music (melodic and rhythmic sounds made as art)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of músico (“musician”): female musician. Without its accent, musica is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arte que consiste em combinar sons de forma harmoniosa”.

What does música mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemusic (melodic and rhythmic sounds made as art)

    Que tipo de música você gosta mais?

  2. 2

    femininesong (any musical composition)

    Esta música me lembra de minha infância

  3. 3

    femininefemale equivalent of músico (“musician”): female musician

  4. 4

    femininemusic; musicology (the study of music)

  5. 5

    femininemusic (any pleasing arrangement of sounds)

adjective

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of músico

verb

as musica
  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. arte que consiste em combinar sons de forma harmoniosa 2. conjunto de sons combinados 3. execução de qualquer peça musical 4. conjunto de músicos

verb: 1. segunda pessoa do imperativo afirmativo do verbo musicar

noun: 1. disciplina escolar, onde se estuda a música 2. curso acadêmico, onde se estuda a música

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of música

  • músicas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to música

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is música in Portuguese?

música appears 363 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).