cabelo
Portuguese, noun/kaˈbe.lu/
cabelo is spelled C-A-B-E-L-O (6 letters) and appears 105 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 934th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabelo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hair, head of hair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pelos que crescem na cabeça do ser humano”.
What does cabelo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehair, head of hair
O cabelo dela era louro.
- 2
masculinehair (a single hair filament)
Há um cabelo na minha sopa!
- 3
colloquialmasculinebody hair, especially if long
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pelos que crescem na cabeça do ser humano 2. pelo comprido em alguns animais 3. mola de aço que regula o movimento dos relógios de pulso ou de bolso
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 cabelo
- cabelos plural
- cabelinho diminutive
- cabelão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabelo?
- Brazil /kaˈbe.lu/
- Portugal /kɐˈbe.lu/
- Portugal [kɐˈβe.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 cabelo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabelo in Portuguese?
cabelo appears 105 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).