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pierrô

Portuguese, noun/pi.eˈʁo/

pierrô is spelled P-I-E-R-R-Ô (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 153,088th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pierrô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a Pierrot costume” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “personagem ingênuo e sentimental criado pela comédia italiana e transportado para o teatro francês, onde se…”.

What does pierrô mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea Pierrot costume

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. personagem ingênuo e sentimental criado pela comédia italiana e transportado para o teatro francês, onde se fixou na pantomima; sua roupa, muito larga, é enfeitada com pompons e tem gola grande e franzida 2. fantasia carnavalesca que reproduz essa indumentária

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 pierrô

  • pierrôs plural

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

How do you pronounce pierrô?

  • Brazil /pi.eˈʁo/
  • Brazil [pi.eˈho]
  • Brazil /pjeˈʁo/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is pierrô in Portuguese?

pierrô appears about once in every 28 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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