teléfono
Portuguese, noun
teléfono is spelled T-E-L-É-F-O-N-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teléfono is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “telephone (a telecommunication device used for two-way talking with another person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, telefono is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of telefonar”.
What does teléfono mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinetelephone (a telecommunication device used for two-way talking with another person)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of telefonar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. telefone
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 teléfono
- teléfonos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is teléfono in Portuguese?
teléfono appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).