zero
Portuguese, noun/ˈzɛ.ɾu/
zero is spelled Z-E-R-O (4 letters) and appears 47 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,013th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “zero (name of the digit 0)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of zerar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o número zero”.
What does zero mean in English?
number
- 1
femininemasculinezero
Vieram zero pessoas.
noun
- 1
masculinezero (name of the digit 0)
- 2
masculinezero (worthless person)
- 3
masculinenothing
- 4
masculinezero (value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of zerar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
number: 1. cardinalidade do conjunto vazio, o número de elementos de um conjunto que não tem elementos 2. número representado por 0 em algarismos arábicos
noun: 1. o número zero: 2. representação do número zero 3. nota de valor zero em uma avaliação
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 zero
- zeros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zero?
- Brazil /ˈzɛ.ɾu/
- Portugal /ˈzɛ.ɾu/
- /ˈzɛ.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zero in Portuguese?
zero appears 47 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).