pillar

Portuguese, noun

pillar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pilar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does pillar mean in English?

noun

1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pilar

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

Forms of pillar

pillares plural

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

How common is pillar in Portuguese?

pillar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

pillar0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).