shekel
Portuguese, noun
shekel is spelled S-H-E-K-E-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 114,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Shekel is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sheqel (currency unit in Israel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver siclo, zequel”.
What does shekel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesheqel (currency unit in Israel)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver siclo, zequel
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 shekel
- shekels plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is shekel in Portuguese?
shekel appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).