calças
Portuguese, noun
calças is spelled C-A-L-Ç-A-S (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,039th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calças is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pants (garment covering the body from the waist downwards)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of calça. Without its cedilla, calcas is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative of calcar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça de vestuário que parte da cintura e cobre as nádegas e as pernas separadamente”.
What does calças mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepants (garment covering the body from the waist downwards)
- 2
feminineplural of calça
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of calçar
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of calcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peça de vestuário que parte da cintura e cobre as nádegas e as pernas separadamente
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.
English words that translate to calças
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calças in Portuguese?
calças appears 13 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).