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timbres

Portuguese, noun/ˈt͡ʃĩ.bɾis/

timbres is spelled T-I-M-B-R-E-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 37,683rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Timbres is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of timbre” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does timbres mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    plural of timbre

verb

  1. 1

    second-person singular present subjunctive of timbrar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo timbrar

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.

How do you pronounce timbres?

  • Brazil /ˈt͡ʃĩ.bɾis/
  • /ˈt͡ʃĩ.bɾiʃ/
  • Portugal /ˈtĩ.bɾɨʃ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is timbres in Portuguese?

timbres appears about once in every 1 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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