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organela

Portuguese, noun/oʁ.ɡaˈnɛ.lɐ/

organela is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “organelle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “numa célula, estrutura permanente, envolta em membrana, e que tem função específica”.

What does organela mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineorganelle

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. numa célula, estrutura permanente, envolta em membrana, e que tem função específica

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 organela

  • organelas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce organela?

  • Brazil /oʁ.ɡaˈnɛ.lɐ/
  • Brazil [oɦ.ɡaˈnɛ.lɐ]
  • /oɾ.ɡaˈnɛ.lɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to organela

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is organela in Portuguese?

organela appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).