órbita
Portuguese, noun
órbita is spelled Ó-R-B-I-T-A (6 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,325th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Órbita is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “orbit (path of one object around another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, orbita is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “trajetória percorrida por um corpo celeste”.
What does órbita mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineorbit (path of one object around another)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. trajetória percorrida por um corpo celeste 2. trajetória curva de uma partícula 3. uma das duas depressões existentes na caverna ocular nas quais estão inseridos os olhos 4. cavidade ocular
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 órbita
- órbitas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to órbita
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is órbita in Portuguese?
órbita appears 6.3 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).