óvulo
Portuguese, noun
óvulo is spelled Ó-V-U-L-O (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,393rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Óvulo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ovum; egg cell (female gamete in animals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, ovulo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of ovular”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gâmeta feminino dos animais, que quando fecundado gera um outro ser”.
What does óvulo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineovum; egg cell (female gamete in animals)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of ovular
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gâmeta feminino dos animais, que quando fecundado gera um outro ser; 2. ovo pequeno.
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 óvulo
- óvulos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to óvulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is óvulo in Portuguese?
óvulo appears 1.4 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).