tornado
Portuguese, noun/toʁˈna.du/
tornado is spelled T-O-R-N-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,707th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tornado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tornado” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of tornar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aguaceiro forte com trovoada, vento e grandes ondas”.
What does tornado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetornado
verb
- 1
past participle of tornar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aguaceiro forte com trovoada, vento e grandes ondas
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 tornado
- tornados plural
- tornada feminine
- tornadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tornado?
- Brazil /toʁˈna.du/
- Brazil [toɦˈna.du]
- /toɾˈna.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tornado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tornado in Portuguese?
tornado appears 17 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).