tais
Portuguese, noun/ˈtajs/
tais is spelled T-A-I-S (4 letters) and appears 117 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 824th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tais is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of tal. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prenome feminino”.
What does tais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineraretais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)
verb
- 1
eye dialect spelling of estais
determiner
- 1
plural of tal
verb
- 1
second-person plural present indicative of tar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. prenome feminino.
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 tais
- taes alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tais?
- Brazil /ˈtajs/
- Brazil [ˈtaɪ̯s]
- /ˈtajʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tais in Portuguese?
tais appears 117 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).