sirte
Portuguese, noun
sirte is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sandy reef that hinders the floating of ships” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “recife ou banco movediço de areia”.
What does sirte mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesandy reef that hinders the floating of ships
- 2
masculinesandbank, shoal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. recife ou banco movediço de areia 2. perigos
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 sirte
- sirtes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sirte in Portuguese?
sirte appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).