villa

Portuguese, noun

villa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vila” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, villã is a different word: “female equivalent of villão”.

What does villa mean in English?

noun

1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vila

noun

as villã

1
femininefemale equivalent of villão

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

Forms of villa

villas plural
villãs plural

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

How common is villa in Portuguese?

villa appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.

villa0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).