nitro
Portuguese, noun/ˈni.tɾu/
nitro is spelled N-I-T-R-O (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,895th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nitro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nitro” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of nitrar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação vulgar do nitrato de potassa e do azotato de potassa”.
What does nitro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenitro
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of nitrar
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of nitrir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação vulgar do nitrato de potassa e do azotato de potassa 2. salitre 3. o radical NO₂
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 nitro
- nitros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nitro?
- Brazil /ˈni.tɾu/
- Portugal /ˈni.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nitro in Portuguese?
nitro appears 1.0 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).