oiti
Portuguese, noun
oiti is spelled O-I-T-I (4 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 125,896th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oiti is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “A tree in the species Moquilea tomentosa found in the Northeast Region of Brazil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, oití is a different word: “prescribed spelling of oiti under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum a algumas árvores da família das crisobalanáceas”.
What does oiti mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineA tree in the species Moquilea tomentosa found in the Northeast Region of Brazil.
- 2
masculinethe fruit of this tree
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of oiti under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação comum a algumas árvores da família das crisobalanáceas 2. árvore de até 10 metros (Licania tomentosa), nativa do Brasil (Piauí à Bahia), de folhas elípticas, flores brancas e frutos comestíveis, com amêndoas ricas em óleo 3. árvore (Licania salzmannii) nativa do Brasil (Bahia), de folhas oblongas, flores alvas em panículas e fruto com polpa farinácea comestível
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 oiti
- oitis plural
- goiti alternative
- oití alternative
- goití alternative
- oitís plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is oiti in Portuguese?
oiti appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).