radionovela
Portuguese, noun/ˌʁa.d͡ʒi.o.noˈvɛ.lɐ/
radionovela is spelled R-A-D-I-O-N-O-V-E-L-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Radionovela is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “radio drama (soap opera broadcast over the radio)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “narrativa folhetinesca sonora, nascida da dramatização do gênero literário novela, produzida e divulgada em…”.
What does radionovela mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineradio drama (soap opera broadcast over the radio)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. narrativa folhetinesca sonora, nascida da dramatização do gênero literário novela, produzida e divulgada em rádio
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 radionovela
- radionovelas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce radionovela?
- Brazil /ˌʁa.d͡ʒi.o.noˈvɛ.lɐ/
- Brazil [ˌha.d͡ʒi.o.noˈvɛ.lɐ]
- Brazil /ˌʁa.d͡ʒjo.noˈvɛ.lɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is radionovela in Portuguese?
radionovela appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).