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vilo

Portuguese, noun/ˈvi.lu/

vilo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “villus (small projection from a mucous membrane)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does vilo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevillus (small projection from a mucous membrane)

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

Forms of vilo

  • vilos plural

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

How do you pronounce vilo?

  • Brazil /ˈvi.lu/
  • Portugal /ˈvi.lu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vilo

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

How common is vilo in Portuguese?

vilo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.

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