relé
Portuguese, noun
relé is spelled R-E-L-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,221st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “relay (electrical actuator)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, rele is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. With an accent, relê is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dispositivo eletromecânico ou não, com inúmeras aplicações possíveis em comutação de contatos elétricos”.
What does relé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerelay (electrical actuator)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dispositivo eletromecânico ou não, com inúmeras aplicações possíveis em comutação de contatos elétricos
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 relé
- relés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to relé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is relé in Portuguese?
relé appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).