cal
Portuguese, noun/ˈkaw/
cal is spelled C-A-L (3 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,226th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cal is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lime (calcium oxide)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome vulgar do óxido de cálcio (também chamado cal viva, cal virgem ou cal cáustica)”.
What does cal mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinenonstandardlime (calcium oxide)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome vulgar do óxido de cálcio (também chamado cal viva, cal virgem ou cal cáustica) 2. nome vulgar do hidróxido de cálcio (cal morta, cal hidratada, cal extinta, cal apagada, branco de cal)
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 cal
- cales plural
- cais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cal?
- Brazil /ˈkaw/
- Brazil [ˈkaʊ̯]
- Portugal /ˈkal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cal in Portuguese?
cal appears 5.6 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).