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cadáver

Portuguese, noun/kaˈda.veʁ/

cadáver is spelled C-A-D-Á-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,602nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cadáver is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cadaver, corpse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “corpo sem vida de um animal ou ser humano”.

What does cadáver mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecadaver, corpse

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. corpo sem vida de um animal ou ser humano 2. indivíduo de aparência ou estado enfraquecido, pouco saudável 3. cobrador de dívida

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 cadáver

  • cadáveres plural
  • cadavre alternative dialectal
  • cadable alternative dialectal
  • cadável alternative dialectal
  • cadávele alternative dialectal
  • cadávere alternative dialectal

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cadáver?

  • Brazil /kaˈda.veʁ/
  • Brazil [kaˈda.veh]
  • /kaˈda.veɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cadáver

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cadáver in Portuguese?

cadáver appears 5.4 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).

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