q
Portuguese, pronoun
q is spelled Q (one letter) and appears 69 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,387th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Q is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “abbreviation of que” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Q is a different word: “The seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the…”.
What does q mean in English?
letter
- 1
masculineThe seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called quê and written in the Latin script.
pronoun
- 1
abbreviation of que
- 2
abbreviation of quê (“what”)
letter
- 1
masculineThe seventeenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 17ª letra do alfabeto português, precedida por P e seguida por R
noun: 1. décima-sétima letra do alfabeto português
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 q
- Q uppercase
- q lowercase
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is q in Portuguese?
q appears 69 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).