saudade
Portuguese, noun/sawˈda.d͡ʒi/
saudade is spelled S-A-U-D-A-D-E (7 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saudade is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “memória ou recordação grata de pessoas, familiares ou objetos”.
What does saudade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone
sentir saudade de alguém
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. memória ou recordação grata de pessoas, familiares ou objetos 2. sentimento experimentado entre duas ou mais pessoas que estão distantes, ou que ficam muito tempo sem se ver 3. lembrança 4. lembrança de pessoas ou coisas distantes ou não mais existentes, acompanhada da vontade de tornar a vê-las ou possuí-las
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 saudade
- saudades plural
- soidade alternative
- suidade alternative
- sodade alternative Brazil dialectal
- saùdade alternative
- saüdade alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saudade?
- Brazil /sawˈda.d͡ʒi/
- Brazil [saʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒi]
- Brazil /sa.uˈda.d͡ʒi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saudade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saudade in Portuguese?
saudade appears 15 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).