recife
Portuguese, noun/ʁeˈsi.fi/
recife is spelled R-E-C-I-F-E (6 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,874th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recife is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “reef (rocks at or near surface of the water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “formação rochosa encontrada no oceano, formada por fragmentos de animais marinhos”.
What does recife mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinereef (rocks at or near surface of the water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. formação rochosa encontrada no oceano, formada por fragmentos de animais marinhos
noun: 1. capital do estado de Pernambuco, no nordeste do Brasil
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 recife
- recifes plural
- arrecife alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recife?
- Brazil /ʁeˈsi.fi/
- Brazil [heˈsi.fi]
- /ʁeˈsi.fi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recife
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recife in Portuguese?
recife appears 31 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).