película
Portuguese, noun/peˈli.ku.lɐ/
película is spelled P-E-L-Í-C-U-L-A (8 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,472nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Película is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a very thin skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “filme”.
What does película mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea very thin skin
- 2
femininefilm (thin layer of some substance)
- 3
femininefilm, movie
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. filme 2. fita cinematográfica 3. folha fina de celulose com uma camada sensível à luz usada em fotografia 4. pele ou membrana muito delgada
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 película
- películas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce película?
- Brazil /peˈli.ku.lɐ/
- Portugal /pɨˈli.ku.lɐ/
- Portugal /pɨ.ˈli.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 película
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is película in Portuguese?
película appears 3.2 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).