partícula
Portuguese, noun/paʁˈt͡ʃi.ku.lɐ/
partícula is spelled P-A-R-T-Í-C-U-L-A (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,227th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Partícula is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “particle (body with very small size)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fragmento muito pequeno”.
What does partícula mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineparticle (body with very small size)
- 2
femininehost (consecrated bread)
- 3
feminineparticle (word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech)
- 4
feminineelementary particle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fragmento muito pequeno 2. grão 3. corpo de dimensão muito pequena 4. palavra invariável, especialmente as monossilábicas ou muito curtas
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 partícula
- partículas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce partícula?
- Brazil /paʁˈt͡ʃi.ku.lɐ/
- Brazil [pahˈt͡ʃi.ku.lɐ]
- /paɾˈt͡ʃi.ku.lɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to partícula
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is partícula in Portuguese?
partícula appears 1.9 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).