preliminares
Portuguese, noun/pɾe.li.miˈna.ɾis/
preliminares is spelled P-R-E-L-I-M-I-N-A-R-E-S (12 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Preliminares is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “foreplay (acts that serve to build up sexual arousal before intercourse)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of preliminar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “jogos de intimidades psicológicas e de atos corporais entre duas ou mais pessoas com o intuito de aumentar a…”.
What does preliminares mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of preliminar
- 2
feminineforeplay (acts that serve to build up sexual arousal before intercourse)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinemasculine/feminine plural of preliminar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jogos de intimidades psicológicas e de atos corporais entre duas ou mais pessoas com o intuito de aumentar a excitação sexual entre os parceiros antes do ato sexual
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.
How do you pronounce preliminares?
- Brazil /pɾe.li.miˈna.ɾis/
- /pɾe.li.miˈna.ɾiʃ/
- Portugal /pɾɨ.li.miˈna.ɾɨʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to preliminares
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is preliminares in Portuguese?
preliminares appears 6.5 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).