skin
Portuguese, noun/isˈkĩ/
skin is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver careca, cabeça-rapada”.
What does skin mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineskin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
- 2
feminineskin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver careca, cabeça-rapada
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 skin
- skins plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce skin?
- Brazil /isˈkĩ/
- /iʃˈkĩ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is skin in Portuguese?
skin appears 2.7 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).