arrebol
Portuguese, noun/a.ʁeˈbɔw/
arrebol is spelled A-R-R-E-B-O-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrebol is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “the reddish colour of the sky during twilight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cor de fogo característica do reflexo do sol nas nuvens, tanto ao nascer como no ocaso”.
What does arrebol mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe reddish colour of the sky during twilight
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cor de fogo característica do reflexo do sol nas nuvens, tanto ao nascer como no ocaso:
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 arrebol
- arrebóis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrebol?
- Brazil /a.ʁeˈbɔw/
- Brazil [a.heˈbɔʊ̯]
- /a.ʁeˈbɔw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arrebol in Portuguese?
arrebol appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).