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salão

Portuguese, noun/saˈlɐ̃w̃/

salão is spelled S-A-L-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,719th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hall, salon, parlour, saloon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sala grande”.

What does salão mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehall, salon, parlour, saloon

  2. 2

    masculineellipsis of salão de beleza

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. sala grande

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 salão

  • salões plural

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

How do you pronounce salão?

  • Brazil /saˈlɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [saˈlɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • Portugal /sɐˈlɐ̃w̃/

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

English words that translate to salão

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

How common is salão in Portuguese?

salão appears 33 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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