v
Portuguese, letter
v is spelled V (one letter) and appears 98 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). V is a Portuguese masculine letter meaning “The twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called vê and written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, V is a different word: “The twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the…”. On this page, V. is a different word: “abbreviation of via (“way”) (used in street names)”.
What does v mean in English?
letter
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masculineThe twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called vê and written in the Latin script.
letter
- 1
masculineThe twenty-second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
noun
- 1
feminineabbreviation of via (“way”) (used in street names).
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. letra do alfabeto português cujo nome é vê; sua forma maiúscula é V
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 v
- V uppercase
- v lowercase
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is v in Portuguese?
v appears 98 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).