quisling
Portuguese, noun
quisling is spelled Q-U-I-S-L-I-N-G (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese, the 193,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quisling is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “quisling (traitor who collaborates with the enemy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que é colaborante com força estrangeira que invade a própria pátria”.
What does quisling mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculinequisling (traitor who collaborates with the enemy)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa que é colaborante com força estrangeira que invade a própria pátria
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 quisling
- quislings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quisling
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quisling in Portuguese?
quisling appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).