official
Portuguese, noun
official is spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L (8 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,226th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Official is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of oficial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does official mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of oficial
noun
- 1
femininemasculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of oficial
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of official
- officiaes plural
- officiais obsolete plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is official in Portuguese?
official appears 5.6 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).