cais
Portuguese, noun
cais is spelled C-A-I-S (4 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,843rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cais is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “quay, wharf, pier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a second-person singular present indicative of cair. With an accent, caís is a different word: “second-person plural present indicative of cair”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lugar à beira-mar, na margem do rio, nas estações de caminho-de-ferro ou do metropolitano apropriado para o…”.
What does cais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequay, wharf, pier
- 2
masculineplatform
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of cair
noun
- 1
feminineplural of cal
verb
- 1
second-person plural present indicative of cair
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lugar à beira-mar, na margem do rio, nas estações de caminho-de-ferro ou do metropolitano apropriado para o embarque e desembarque de pessoas ou mercadorias
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 cais
- cays alternative obsolete
- caes alternative obsolete
- cayz alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cais
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cais in Portuguese?
cais appears 5.9 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).