oblongo
Portuguese, adjective/oˈblõ.ɡu/
oblongo is spelled O-B-L-O-N-G-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 129,832nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oblongo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “oblong (longer than wide)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “oval, elíptico”.
What does oblongo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
oblong (longer than wide)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. oval, elíptico
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 oblongo
- oblonga feminine
- oblongos masculine plural
- oblongas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oblongo?
- Brazil /oˈblõ.ɡu/
- Portugal /ɔˈblõ.ɡu/
- Portugal [ɔˈβlõ.ɡu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oblongo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oblongo in Portuguese?
oblongo appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).