pâncreas
Portuguese, noun/ˈpɐ̃.kɾjɐs/
pâncreas is spelled P-Â-N-C-R-E-A-S (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,965th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâncreas is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pancreas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “glândula digestiva de secreção interna (insulina e glucagon) e externa (suco pancreático)”.
What does pâncreas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepancreas
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. glândula digestiva de secreção interna (insulina e glucagon) e externa (suco pancreático)
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.
How do you pronounce pâncreas?
- Brazil /ˈpɐ̃.kɾjɐs/
- /ˈpɐ̃.kɾi.ɐʃ/
- /ˈpɐ̃.kɾjɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pâncreas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pâncreas in Portuguese?
pâncreas appears 2.0 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).