olfacto
Portuguese, noun/olˈfak.tu/
olfacto is spelled O-L-F-A-C-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Olfacto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of olfato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide olfato”.
What does olfacto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of olfato
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide olfato
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 olfacto
- olfactos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce olfacto?
- Portugal /olˈfak.tu/
- Portugal [oɫˈfak.tu]
- Portugal /ɔlˈfak.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is olfacto in Portuguese?
olfacto appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).