póvoa
Portuguese, noun
póvoa is spelled P-Ó-V-O-A (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,393rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Póvoa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “hamlet (small village or a group of houses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, povoa is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”.
What does póvoa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehamlet (small village or a group of houses)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. freguesia do concelho de Miranda do Douro
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 póvoa
- póvoas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is póvoa in Portuguese?
póvoa appears 1.4 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).