parafuso
Portuguese, noun/pa.ɾaˈfu.zu/
parafuso is spelled P-A-R-A-F-U-S-O (8 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,458th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parafuso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “screw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of parafusar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto usado para fixar duas peças; formado por uma haste com sulcos helicoidais, uma ponta numa das…”.
What does parafuso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescrew
- 2
masculinetailspin
- 3
informalmasculinewit; reason; common sense
- 4
masculinea specific move in capoeira
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of parafusar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. objeto usado para fixar duas peças; formado por uma haste com sulcos helicoidais, uma ponta numa das extremidades e, na outra, a cabeça do parafuso que é uma parte achatada e maior onde vai agir a ferramenta usada para atarrachar o parafuso, por exemplo, uma chave de fenda
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 parafuso
- parafusos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parafuso?
- Brazil /pa.ɾaˈfu.zu/
- Portugal /pɐ.ɾɐˈfu.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to parafuso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is parafuso in Portuguese?
parafuso appears 3.0 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).