w
Portuguese, letter
w is a Portuguese masculine letter meaning “The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, W is a different word: “The twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dáblio, a vigésima terceira letra do alfabeto latino”.
What does w mean in English?
letter
- 1
masculineThe twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
letter
- 1
masculineThe twenty-third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
letter: 1. dáblio, a vigésima terceira letra do alfabeto latino
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 w
- W uppercase
- w lowercase
- W, w canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is w in Portuguese?
w appears 23 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).