vozeirão
Portuguese, noun/vo.ze(j)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
vozeirão is spelled V-O-Z-E-I-R-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vozeirão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “loud voice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of voz. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “voz muito grave e forte”.
What does vozeirão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineloud voice
- 2
masculineaugmentative of voz
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. voz muito grave e forte
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 vozeirão
- vozeirões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vozeirão?
- Brazil /vo.ze(j)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [vo.ze(ɪ̯)ˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /vu.zɐjˈɾɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vozeirão in Portuguese?
vozeirão appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).