tapuio
Portuguese, noun
tapuio is spelled T-A-P-U-I-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapuio is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of tapuia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tapuia”.
What does tapuio mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinealternative form of tapuia
adjective
- 1
alternative form of tapuia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo a descendente de indígena 2. relativo a descendente de branco e indígena 3. relativo a indígena considerado feroz 4. relativo a indígena considerado manso
noun: 1. tapuia 2. descendente de indígena 3. descendente de branco e indígena 4. indígena considerado feroz
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 tapuio
- tapuios plural
- tapuia feminine
- tapuias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tapuio in Portuguese?
tapuio appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).