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calor

Portuguese, noun/kaˈloʁ/

calor is spelled C-A-L-O-R (5 letters) and appears 51 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,846th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “heat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sensação experimentada em um ambiente aquecido ou ao tocar um objeto quente”.

What does calor mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineheat

  2. 2

    masculinean instance of high temperature

  3. 3

    masculinedrunkenness, intoxication

adjective

  1. 1

    hot

    Hoje está muito calor!

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. sensação experimentada em um ambiente aquecido ou ao tocar um objeto quente 2. qualidade do que está quente 3. animação 4. cordialidade

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 calor

  • calores plural

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

How do you pronounce calor?

  • Brazil /kaˈloʁ/
  • Brazil [kaˈloh]
  • /kaˈloɾ/

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

English words that translate to calor

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

How common is calor in Portuguese?

calor appears 51 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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