calce
Portuguese, verb/ˈkaw.si/
calce is spelled C-A-L-C-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calce is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular present subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does calce mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. socalco 2. cunha, calço que evita que algo se mova
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.
How do you pronounce calce?
- Brazil /ˈkaw.si/
- Brazil [ˈkaʊ̯.si]
- Portugal /ˈkal.sɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is calce in Portuguese?
calce appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).