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postal

Portuguese, noun/posˈtaw/

postal is spelled P-O-S-T-A-L (6 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Postal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “postcard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bilhete-postal, cartão-postal”.

What does postal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculinepostal (relating to mail)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepostcard

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. do correio 2. referente ao correio

noun: 1. bilhete-postal, cartão-postal

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 postal

  • postais plural

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

How do you pronounce postal?

  • Brazil /posˈtaw/
  • Brazil [posˈtaʊ̯]
  • /poʃˈtaw/

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

English words that translate to postal

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

How common is postal in Portuguese?

postal appears 8.7 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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