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resíduo

Portuguese, noun/ʁeˈzi.d(w)u/

resíduo is spelled R-E-S-Í-D-U-O (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,396th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resíduo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “residue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “borras”.

What does resíduo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    residual

  2. 2

    remaining

noun

  1. 1

    masculineresidue

  2. 2

    masculineresidue (form of complex number)

  3. 3

    masculineremainder

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que resta

noun: 1. borras 2. sedimento 3. fezes 4. resto

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 resíduo

  • resídua feminine
  • resíduos masculine plural
  • resíduas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce resíduo?

  • Brazil /ʁeˈzi.d(w)u/
  • Brazil [heˈzi.d(w)u]
  • /ʁeˈzi.d(w)u/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to resíduo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is resíduo in Portuguese?

resíduo appears 2.1 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).

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