sílabas
Portuguese, noun
sílabas is spelled S-Í-L-A-B-A-S (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,465th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sílabas is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of sílaba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, silabas is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative of silabar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “plural de sílaba”.
What does sílabas mean in English?
noun
- 1
plural of sílaba
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of silabar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. plural de sílaba
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 common is sílabas in Portuguese?
sílabas appears 1.2 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).