teiú
Portuguese, noun/tejˈu/
teiú is spelled T-E-I-Ú (4 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 171,147th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teiú is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tegu (any lizard in the genera Tupinambis or Salvator)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação indígena do lagarto”.
What does teiú mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinetegu (any lizard in the genera Tupinambis or Salvator)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação indígena do lagarto
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 teiú
- teiús plural
- teju alternative
- tegu alternative
- tiú alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce teiú?
- Brazil /tejˈu/
- Brazil [teɪ̯ˈu]
- Portugal /tɐjˈu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to teiú
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is teiú in Portuguese?
teiú appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).