paraquedas
Portuguese, noun/ˌpa.ɾaˈkɛ.dɐs/
paraquedas is spelled P-A-R-A-Q-U-E-D-A-S (10 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paraquedas is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “parachute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “artefato usado para amortecer a queda em saltos de aeronaves até o solo”.
What does paraquedas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparachute
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. artefato usado para amortecer a queda em saltos de aeronaves até o solo 2. qualquer artefato que reduza a velocidade de queda dos corpos
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 paraquedas
- pára-quedas alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce paraquedas?
- Brazil /ˌpa.ɾaˈkɛ.dɐs/
- /ˌpa.ɾaˈkɛ.dɐʃ/
- Portugal /ˌpa.ɾɐˈkɛ.dɐʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to paraquedas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is paraquedas in Portuguese?
paraquedas appears 2.9 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).