vitiligo
Portuguese, noun/vi.t͡ʃiˈli.ɡu/
vitiligo is spelled V-I-T-I-L-I-G-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vitiligo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “afecção cutânea que causa a perda da pigmentação em áreas que podem ter bordas escurecidas”.
What does vitiligo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. afecção cutânea que causa a perda da pigmentação em áreas que podem ter bordas escurecidas
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.
How do you pronounce vitiligo?
- Brazil /vi.t͡ʃiˈli.ɡu/
- Portugal /vi.tiˈli.ɡu/
- Portugal [vi.tiˈli.ɣu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vitiligo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vitiligo in Portuguese?
vitiligo appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).