sultão
Portuguese, noun/suwˈtɐ̃w̃/
sultão is spelled S-U-L-T-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sultão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sultan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “soberano de um sultanato”.
What does sultão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesultan
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. soberano de um sultanato 2. homem que tem muitas amantes
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 sultão
- sultões plural
- sultana feminine
- sultanas feminine plural
- Soltão alternative obsolete
- Soltaõ alternative obsolete
- Sultaõ alternative obsolete
- Soltam alternative obsolete
- Sultam alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sultão?
- Brazil /suwˈtɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [suʊ̯ˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /sulˈtɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sultão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sultão in Portuguese?
sultão appears 3.9 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).