ruí
Portuguese, verb
ruí is spelled R-U-Í (3 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,546th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruí is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular preterite indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, rui is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo afirmativo do verbo ruir”.
What does ruí mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative
- 2
second-person plural 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. prenome masculino
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo ruir
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do plural do imperativo afirmativo do verbo ruir
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.
How common is ruí in Portuguese?
ruí appears 18 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).