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massa

Portuguese, noun/ˈma.sɐ/

massa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “dough (a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância pastosa, densa”.

What does massa mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedough (a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients)

    massa de pão

  2. 2

    femininebatter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid)

    massa de bolo

  3. 3

    femininepasta

  4. 4

    femininea concentration of substance or tightly packed objects

  5. 5

    femininemortar (mixture for bonding bricks)

  6. 6

    femininemultitude (a great mass of people)

  7. 7

    femininemass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)

  8. 8

    feminineslangmoney

adjective

  1. 1

    Brazilfeminineinformalmasculinecool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)

  2. 2

    Brazilfeminineinformalmasculinegreat; amazing; awesome

    Aprender línguas é muito massa!

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. bom, legal, agradável, divertido:

noun: 1. substância pastosa, densa 2. preparado constituído basicamente por trigo, usado na fabricação do pão, macarrão e tortas salgadas 3. base da sociedade constituída basicamente pelas classes sociais inferiores 4. grande quantidade de pessoas, turba, multidão:

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 massa

  • massas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce massa?

  • Brazil /ˈma.sɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈma.sɐ/
  • Portugal [ˈma.s̺ɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to massa

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is massa in Portuguese?

massa appears 102 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).