soluço
Portuguese, noun/soˈlu.su/
soluço is spelled S-O-L-U-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soluço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sob” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of soluçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida…”.
What does soluço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesob
- 2
masculinehiccup
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of soluçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. inalação rápida e involuntária de ar que acompanha um espasmo do diafragma e é repentinamente interrompida pelo fechamento da glote, produzindo um som agudo e curto
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 soluço
- soluços plural
- saluço alternative dated dialectal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soluço?
- Brazil /soˈlu.su/
- Portugal /suˈlu.su/
- Portugal /sɐˈlu.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soluço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soluço in Portuguese?
soluço appears 1.4 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).