painço
Portuguese, noun/paˈĩ.su/
painço is spelled P-A-I-N-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Painço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “millet, any grass in the genus Panicum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cereal cultivado de grão muito pequeno, diversas espécies da sub-família Panicoideae e da família Poaceae…”.
What does painço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemillet, any grass in the genus Panicum
- 2
masculinePanicum miliaceum
- 3
colloquialmasculinemoney
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cereal cultivado de grão muito pequeno, diversas espécies da sub-família Panicoideae e da família Poaceae recebem este nome
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 painço
- painços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce painço?
- Brazil /paˈĩ.su/
- Portugal /pɐˈĩ.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to painço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is painço in Portuguese?
painço appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).