nananinanão
Portuguese, interjection/na.na.ni.naˈnɐ̃w̃/
nananinanão is spelled N-A-N-A-N-I-N-A-N-Ã-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese, the 197,229th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nananinanão is a Portuguese interjection meaning “no” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does nananinanão mean in English?
interjection
- 1
Brazilno
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. não
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.
How do you pronounce nananinanão?
- Brazil /na.na.ni.naˈnɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [na.na.ni.naˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nananinanão in Portuguese?
nananinanão appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).