saudades
Portuguese, noun/sawˈda.d͡ʒis/
saudades is spelled S-A-U-D-A-D-E-S (8 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saudades is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “plural of saudade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “município brasileiro do estado de Santa Catarina”.
What does saudades mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of saudade
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado de Santa Catarina
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 do you pronounce saudades?
- Brazil /sawˈda.d͡ʒis/
- Brazil [saʊ̯ˈda.d͡ʒis]
- /sawˈda.d͡ʒiʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is saudades in Portuguese?
saudades appears 23 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).