piolhento
Portuguese, noun/pi.oˈʎẽ.tu/
piolhento is spelled P-I-O-L-H-E-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piolhento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a person infested with lice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquele que tem piolhos”.
What does piolhento mean in English?
adjective
- 1
infested with lice
noun
- 1
masculinea person infested with lice
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que é propício à criação de piolhos 2. que tem piolhos 3. diz-se de indivíduo ou animal sujo, imundo
noun: 1. aquele que tem piolhos 2. indivíduo ou animal sujo, imundo
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 piolhento
- piolhenta feminine
- piolhentos masculine plural
- piolhentas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piolhento?
- Brazil /pi.oˈʎẽ.tu/
- Brazil /pjoˈʎẽ.tu/
- Portugal /pjuˈʎẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piolhento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piolhento in Portuguese?
piolhento appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).