punhado
Portuguese, noun/pũˈɲa.du/
punhado is spelled P-U-N-H-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,528th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Punhado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “handful, fistful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “porção que pode conter a mão fechada”.
What does punhado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehandful, fistful
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. porção que pode conter a mão fechada 2. mão-cheia
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 punhado
- punhados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce punhado?
- Brazil /pũˈɲa.du/
- Brazil [pũˈj̃a.du]
- Portugal /puˈɲa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to punhado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is punhado in Portuguese?
punhado appears 3.5 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).