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t

Portuguese, letter

t is spelled T (one letter) and appears 85 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,145th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). T is a Portuguese masculine letter meaning “The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, T is a different word: “adaptor (device allowing more plugs at a socket)”.

What does t mean in English?

letter

  1. 1

    masculineThe twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

letter

as T
  1. 1

    masculineThe twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

noun

as T
  1. 1

    masculineadaptor (device allowing more plugs at a socket)

interfix

as -t-
  1. 1

    used to link two adjacent vowels in some words

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. vigésima letra do alfabeto latino usado no português; precedida por S e seguida por U 2. acessório elétrico que serve a dividir uma tomada elétrica em três (Nota: o mesmo que benjamim)

noun: 1. vigésima letra do alfabeto português; sua forma maiúscula é T

interjection: 1. até mais

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 t

  • T uppercase
  • t lowercase
  • Ts plural
  • T, t canonical

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

English words that translate to t

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

How common is t in Portuguese?

t appears 85 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).

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