salitre
Portuguese, noun/saˈli.tɾi/
salitre is spelled S-A-L-I-T-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salitre is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “saltpetre (potassium nitrate)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nitrato de potássio”.
What does salitre mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinesaltpetre (potassium nitrate)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nitrato de potássio
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
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 salitre
- salitres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salitre?
- Brazil /saˈli.tɾi/
- Portugal /sɐˈli.tɾɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is salitre in Portuguese?
salitre appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).