polígrafo
Portuguese, noun/poˈli.ɡɾa.fu/
polígrafo is spelled P-O-L-Í-G-R-A-F-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Polígrafo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “polygraph” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aparelho que registra em simultâneo várias funções psicológicas e fisiológicas”.
What does polígrafo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepolygraph
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aparelho que registra em simultâneo várias funções psicológicas e fisiológicas 2. aquele que escreve sobre muitos assuntos 3. engenho que produz cópias simultâneas de um mesmo texto ao mover diversas penas ao mesmo tempo 4. polímata
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 polígrafo
- polígrafos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce polígrafo?
- Brazil /poˈli.ɡɾa.fu/
- Portugal /puˈli.ɡɾɐ.fu/
- Portugal [puˈli.ɣɾɐ.fu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to polígrafo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is polígrafo in Portuguese?
polígrafo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).