realejo
Portuguese, noun/ʁe.aˈle.ʒu/
realejo is spelled R-E-A-L-E-J-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 87,166th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Realejo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “street organ (small, mechanically played organ)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento que toca uma música predefinida quando se gira uma manivela”.
What does realejo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestreet organ (small, mechanically played organ)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumento que toca uma música predefinida quando se gira uma manivela 2. uirapuru, diversas aves da floresta pluvial americana, de canto melodioso e plumagem colorida, das famílias dos pripídeos, dos trogloditídeos e dos tamnofilídeos
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 realejo
- realejos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce realejo?
- Brazil /ʁe.aˈle.ʒu/
- Brazil [he.aˈle.ʒu]
- /ʁe.aˈle.ʒu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is realejo in Portuguese?
realejo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).