whiskey
Portuguese, noun/uˈis.ki/
whiskey is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of uísque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “uísque”.
What does whiskey mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of uísque
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. uísque
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 whiskey
- whiskeys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce whiskey?
- Brazil /uˈis.ki/
- Brazil /ˈwis.ki/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is whiskey in Portuguese?
whiskey appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).