patuleia
Portuguese, noun
patuleia is spelled P-A-T-U-L-E-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese, the 161,170th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patuleia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “rabble (the mass of common people)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, patuléia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of patuleia; may still occur as…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “membro do partido popular da Patuleia”.
What does patuleia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerabble (the mass of common people)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of patuleia; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide patuleia
noun: 1. o partido popular na revolução de setembro de 1846 em Portugal
noun: 1. membro do partido popular da Patuleia 2. conjunto de indivíduos pertencentes à camada inferior de uma sociedade; arraia-miúda, plebe, populacho
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 patuleia
- patuleias plural
- patuléia alternative obsolete
- patuléias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is patuleia in Portuguese?
patuleia appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).