calvície
Portuguese, noun/kawˈvi.si/
calvície is spelled C-A-L-V-Í-C-I-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,725th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calvície is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “baldness (the state of being bald)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estado do que é calvo”.
What does calvície mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebaldness (the state of being bald)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado do que é calvo. 2. alopecia. 3. acomia.
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 calvície
- calvícies plural
- calvice alternative nonstandard
- cal.ví.ci.e canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calvície?
- Brazil /kawˈvi.si/
- Brazil [kaʊ̯ˈvi.si]
- Brazil /kawˈvi.s(j)i/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calvície
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calvície in Portuguese?
calvície appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).