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pele

Portuguese, noun

pele is spelled P-E-L-E (4 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,644th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pele is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of pelar. With an accent, pelé is a different word: “king (dominant figure in a field)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tecido que reveste externamente o corpo humano e o de muitos animais; couro”.

What does pele mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineskin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)

  2. 2

    feminineskin (outer protective layer of fruit)

  3. 3

    femininefur

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

noun

as pelé
  1. 1

    Brazilcolloquialfemininemasculineking (dominant figure in a field)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. tecido que reveste externamente o corpo humano e o de muitos animais; couro 2. tecido epitelial de revestimento externo 3. corpo; a pessoa em si 4. condição ou estado de bem-estar de alguém

noun: 1. sumidade expoente técnica maior 2. melhor de todos os tempos, GOAT

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 pele

  • peles plural
  • pelés plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pele

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pele in Portuguese?

pele appears 59 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).

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