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canto

Portuguese, noun/ˈkɐ̃.tu/

canto is spelled C-A-N-T-O (5 letters) and appears 45 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,091st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cantar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de cantar”.

What does canto mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesinging (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)

  2. 2

    masculinechant

  3. 3

    masculinea bird’s song

  4. 4

    masculineany pleasant sound

  5. 5

    masculinecanto

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecorner (space in the angle between converging lines or surfaces)

    Os quatro cantos do mundo

  2. 2

    masculinea remote location

  3. 3

    masculinean undetermined or unknown location

  4. 4

    masculinethe corner of the goal line and touchline

  5. 5

    Portugalmasculinecorner kick

  6. 6

    masculinetype of stone used in the corners of a building

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of cantar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. o ato de cantar 2. cada uma das grandes divisões de poemas épicos:

noun: 1. local onde duas paredes ou linhas se encontram: 2. local onde se mora ou frequenta regularmente: 3. pedra de cantaria

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 canto

  • cantos plural

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

How do you pronounce canto?

  • Brazil /ˈkɐ̃.tu/
  • Portugal /ˈkɐ̃.tu/

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

English words that translate to canto

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

How common is canto in Portuguese?

canto appears 45 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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