short
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃɔʁ.t͡ʃi/
short is spelled S-H-O-R-T (5 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Short is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “shorts (pants that do not go lower than the knees)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver xorte”.
What does short mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculineshorts (pants that do not go lower than the knees)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver xorte
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 short
- shorts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce short?
- Brazil /ˈʃɔʁ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [ˈʃɔh.t͡ʃi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to short
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is short in Portuguese?
short appears 8.9 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).