cabeço
Portuguese, noun/kaˈbe.su/
cabeço is spelled C-A-B-E-Ç-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabeço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hillock (small hill)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cume convexo e arredondado de um monte ou de uma pequena serra”.
What does cabeço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehillock (small hill)
- 2
masculinea round hilltop or mountaintop
- 3
masculineheading; header (information at the top of a document, or on an envelope)
- 4
masculinebollard (post to secure mooring lines)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cume convexo e arredondado de um monte ou de uma pequena serra 2. monte relativamente pequeno e arredondado 3. penedo 4. o mesmo que cabeçalho (o alto de uma página impressa, conjunto de informações, título permanente que encabeça)
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 cabeço
- cabeços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabeço?
- Brazil /kaˈbe.su/
- Portugal /kɐˈbe.su/
- Portugal [kɐˈβe.su]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabeço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabeço in Portuguese?
cabeço appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).