verbete
Portuguese, noun/veʁˈbe.t͡ʃi/
verbete is spelled V-E-R-B-E-T-E (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,685th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “entry (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of verbetar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “texto para explicar a significação de uma palavra ou expressão num dicionário ou numa enciclopédia”.
What does verbete mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineentry (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia)
- 2
masculinea small note (brief piece of writing)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. texto para explicar a significação de uma palavra ou expressão num dicionário ou numa enciclopédia 2. nota 3. papel, ou outro local, em que se escreve o verbete (2)
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 verbete
- verbetes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce verbete?
- Brazil /veʁˈbe.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [veɦˈbe.t͡ʃi]
- /veɾˈbe.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to verbete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verbete in Portuguese?
verbete appears 1.1 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).