permafrost
Portuguese, noun/peʁ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi/
permafrost is spelled P-E-R-M-A-F-R-O-S-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Permafrost is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “permafrost (permanently frozen ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver pergelissolo”.
What does permafrost mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepermafrost (permanently frozen ground)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver pergelissolo
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.
How do you pronounce permafrost?
- Brazil /peʁ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [peɦ.maˈfɾɔs.t͡ʃi]
- Brazil /peʁ.maˈfɾɔst͡ʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to permafrost
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is permafrost in Portuguese?
permafrost appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).