zóio

Portuguese, noun

zóio is spelled Z-Ó-I-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zóio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pronunciation spelling of olhos, representing Caipira Portuguese” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, zoio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of zoiar”.