neles
Portuguese, contraction
neles is spelled N-E-L-E-S (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,502nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Neles is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of em + eles, literally “in them (masculine)”: masculine plural of nele” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of nele. With an accent, nêles is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “plural de nele”.
What does neles mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of em + eles, literally “in them (masculine)”: masculine plural of nele
noun
- 1
plural of nele
contraction
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of neles
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. plural de nele
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 common is neles in Portuguese?
neles appears 14 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).