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topo

Portuguese, noun

topo is spelled T-O-P-O (4 letters) and appears 38 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,420th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Topo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “top (uppermost part)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of topar. With an accent, tôpo is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ápice, cume, ponto mais elevado”.

What does topo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetop (uppermost part)

  2. 2

    masculineapex (moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.)

noun

  1. 1

    datedmasculinecollision (instance of colliding)

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of topar

noun

as tôpo
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of topo

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ápice, cume, ponto mais elevado

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 topo

  • topos plural
  • tôpo alternative
  • tôpos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to topo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is topo in Portuguese?

topo appears 38 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).

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