sílaba
Portuguese, noun
sílaba is spelled S-Í-L-A-B-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sílaba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “syllable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, silaba is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupo de fonemas pronunciados juntos, numa única expiração”.
What does sílaba mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesyllable
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo de fonemas pronunciados juntos, numa única expiração: 2. por extensão, grupo de letras que representa uma sílaba¹: 3. qualquer som articulado
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 sílaba
- sílabas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sílaba
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sílaba in Portuguese?
sílaba appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).