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sommelier

Portuguese, noun/so.me.liˈe/

sommelier is spelled S-O-M-M-E-L-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sommelier is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sommelier (wine steward)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver someliê”.

What does sommelier mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesommelier (wine steward)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ver someliê

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 sommelier

  • sommeliers plural
  • sommelière feminine
  • sommelières feminine plural
  • someliê alternative rare

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sommelier?

  • Brazil /so.me.liˈe/
  • Brazil /so.meˈlje/
  • Portugal /sɔ.mɛˈlje/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to sommelier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sommelier in Portuguese?

sommelier appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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