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pixel

Portuguese, noun

pixel is spelled P-I-X-E-L (5 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pixel is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of píxel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, píxel is a different word: “pixel (one of the dots that make up an image)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver píxel”.

What does pixel mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative form of píxel

noun

as píxel
  1. 1

    masculinepixel (one of the dots that make up an image)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pequeno ponto formador de imagem digital

noun: 1. ver píxel

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 pixel

  • pixels plural
  • pixeis plural proscribed
  • píxeis plural
  • pixel alternative

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

English words that translate to pixel

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pixel in Portuguese?

pixel appears 2.0 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).

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