quinhentos
Portuguese, noun/kĩˈɲẽ.tus/
quinhentos is spelled Q-U-I-N-H-E-N-T-O-S (10 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quinhentos is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “five hundred (the value of 500, or something with the value of 500)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does quinhentos mean in English?
adjective
- 1
masculinefive hundred; 500
noun
- 1
masculinefive hundred (the value of 500, or something with the value of 500)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
number: 1. número equivalente a cinquenta dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha cinco centenas de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 500 (algarismos arábicos) ou D (algarismos romanos); seu feminino é quinhentas
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 quinhentos
- quinhentas feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quinhentos?
- Brazil /kĩˈɲẽ.tus/
- Brazil [kĩˈj̃ẽ.tus]
- /kĩˈɲẽ.tuʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quinhentos in Portuguese?
quinhentos appears 3.7 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).