anelo
Portuguese, noun/aˈnɛ.lu/
anelo is spelled A-N-E-L-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anelo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “craving (strong desire; yearning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of anelar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “anseio”.
What does anelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecraving (strong desire; yearning)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of anelar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. anseio
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 anelo
- anelos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anelo?
- Brazil /aˈnɛ.lu/
- Portugal /ɐˈnɛ.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anelo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anelo in Portuguese?
anelo appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).