somenos
Portuguese, adjective/soˈmẽ.nus/
somenos is spelled S-O-M-E-N-O-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese, the 205,610th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Somenos is a Portuguese adjective meaning “minor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “de pouco valor”.
What does somenos mean in English?
adjective
- 1
minor
- 2
shoddy
- 3
ordinary
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. de pouco valor 2. de qualidade inferior 3. ordinário
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 do you pronounce somenos?
- Brazil /soˈmẽ.nus/
- /soˈmẽ.nuʃ/
- Portugal /suˈme.nuʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is somenos in Portuguese?
somenos appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).