predecessor
Portuguese, noun/pɾe.de.seˈsoʁ/
predecessor is spelled P-R-E-D-E-C-E-S-S-O-R (11 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Predecessor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “predecessor (something or someone who precedes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver antecessor”.
What does predecessor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepredecessor (something or someone who precedes)
adjective
- 1
preceding (occurring before or in front of something else)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver antecessor
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 predecessor
- predecessores plural
- predecessora feminine
- predecessoras feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce predecessor?
- Brazil /pɾe.de.seˈsoʁ/
- Brazil [pɾe.de.seˈsoh]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to predecessor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is predecessor in Portuguese?
predecessor appears 1.8 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).