nuns
Portuguese, contraction/ˈnũs/
nuns is spelled N-U-N-S (4 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nuns is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “contraction of em + uns, literally “in some (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of num” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “em (preposição) + uns (plural do artigo indefinido um)”.
What does nuns mean in English?
contraction
- 1
masculinecontraction of em + uns, literally “in some (masculine plural)”: masculine plural of num
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. em (preposição) + uns (plural do artigo indefinido um)
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 nuns
- n'uns alternative
- nũs alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nuns?
- Brazil /ˈnũs/
- /ˈnũʃ/
- Portugal /ˈnũʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nuns in Portuguese?
nuns appears 1.1 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).