professorado
Portuguese, noun/pɾo.fe.soˈɾa.du/
professorado is spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R-A-D-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Professorado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “professorship, teachership” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cargo ou função de professor”.
What does professorado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprofessorship, teachership
- 2
masculineprofessors or teachers, collectively
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cargo ou função de professor 2. categoria dos profissionais professores 3. conjunto dos professores de determinada região ou de determinada instituição de ensino
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 professorado
- professorados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce professorado?
- Brazil /pɾo.fe.soˈɾa.du/
- Portugal /pɾu.fɨ.suˈɾa.du/
- Portugal [pɾu.fɨ.suˈɾa.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to professorado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is professorado in Portuguese?
professorado appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).