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quarteto

Portuguese, noun/kwaʁˈte.tu/

quarteto is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T-O (8 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,032nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quarteto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “music composition in four parts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “composição musical, própria para ser executada por quatro vozes ou quatro instrumentos”.

What does quarteto mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemusic composition in four parts

  2. 2

    masculinefour musicians who perform a piece of music together

  3. 3

    masculinegroup of four (things or people)

    Quarteto Fantástico

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. composição musical, própria para ser executada por quatro vozes ou quatro instrumentos 2. grupo de quatro pessoas

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 quarteto

  • quartetos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce quarteto?

  • Brazil /kwaʁˈte.tu/
  • Brazil [kwahˈte.tu]
  • /kwaɾˈte.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to quarteto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is quarteto in Portuguese?

quarteto appears 4.6 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).

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