z
Portuguese, letter
z is spelled Z (one letter) and appears 22 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,833rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Z is a Portuguese masculine letter meaning “The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called zê and written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Z is a different word: “The twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the…”.
What does z mean in English?
letter
- 1
masculineThe twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called zê and written in the Latin script.
letter
- 1
masculineThe twenty-sixth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
interfix
- 1
used when an entire word, rather than the word's stem, is connected to a suffix that begins with a vowel
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. transmite o sentido de conjunto, grupo que compõe os que mais ruimente graduam-se numa escala de desempenho segundo resultados obtidos
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 z
- Z uppercase
- z lowercase
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is z in Portuguese?
z appears 22 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).