rio
Portuguese, noun/ˈʁi.u/
rio is spelled R-I-O (3 letters) and appears 537 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 171st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “river (a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of rir. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “curso por onde passa água doce continuamente (ou durante épocas específicas do ano)”.
What does rio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineriver (a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea)
- 2
masculinea large amount of anything
Ganhamos um rio de dinheiro.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of rir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. curso por onde passa água doce continuamente (ou durante épocas específicas do ano)
noun: 1. forma resumida da "Cidade do Rio de Janeiro" ou do "Estado do Rio de Janeiro":
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 rio
- rios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rio?
- Brazil /ˈʁi.u/
- Brazil [ˈhi.u]
- Brazil /ˈʁiw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rio in Portuguese?
rio appears 537 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).