nheengatu
Portuguese, noun/ɲe.ẽ.ɡaˈtu/
nheengatu is spelled N-H-E-E-N-G-A-T-U (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese, the 166,096th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nheengatu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Nheengatu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “língua da família tupi-guarani ainda falado no interior da região amazônica (código de língua ISO 639-3: yrl)”.
What does nheengatu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineNheengatu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. língua da família tupi-guarani ainda falado no interior da região amazônica (código de língua ISO 639-3: yrl)
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 nheengatu
- nhengatu alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nheengatu?
- Brazil /ɲe.ẽ.ɡaˈtu/
- Brazil [j̃e.ẽ.ɡaˈtu]
- Brazil /ɲẽ.ɡaˈtu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nheengatu in Portuguese?
nheengatu appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).