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plos

Portuguese, contraction/plus/

plos is spelled P-L-O-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plos is a Portuguese masculine contraction meaning “syncopic form of pelos: masculine plural of plo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does plos mean in English?

contraction

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    Portugalmasculinesyncopic form of pelos: masculine plural of plo

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

How do you pronounce plos?

  • Brazil /plus/
  • /pluʃ/
  • Portugal /pluʃ/

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

How common is plos in Portuguese?

plos appears about once in every 6 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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