prumo
Portuguese, noun/ˈpɾũ.mu/
prumo is spelled P-R-U-M-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prumo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plummet (lead on a line used to check if something is perfectly vertical)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of prumar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento constituído de um peso pendurado a um barbante, utilizado para aferir a verticalidade de uma…”.
What does prumo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplummet (lead on a line used to check if something is perfectly vertical)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of prumar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumento constituído de um peso pendurado a um barbante, utilizado para aferir a verticalidade de uma parede ou pilar 2. na enxertia de garfo, macho que é encaixado na planta
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 prumo
- prumos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prumo?
- Brazil /ˈpɾũ.mu/
- Portugal /ˈpɾu.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prumo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prumo in Portuguese?
prumo appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).