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polissêmico

Portuguese, adjective

polissêmico is spelled P-O-L-I-S-S-Ê-M-I-C-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Polissêmico is a Portuguese adjective meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of polissémico” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, polissémico is a different word: “polysemous; polysemic (having multiple meanings)”.

What does polissêmico mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of polissémico

adjective

as polissémico
  1. 1

    polysemous; polysemic (having multiple meanings)

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

Forms of polissêmico

  • polissémica feminine
  • polissémicos masculine plural
  • polissémicas feminine plural
  • polissêmico alternative Brazil
  • polissêmica feminine
  • polissêmicos masculine plural
  • polissêmicas feminine plural

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

English words that translate to polissêmico

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

How common is polissêmico in Portuguese?

polissêmico appears about once in every 43 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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