cão
Portuguese, noun
cão is spelled C-Ã-O (3 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, caô is a different word: “lie; nonsense talk”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “animal mamífero, carnívoro e quadrúpede da família dos canídeos; Canis familiaris”.
What does cão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedog
- 2
colloquialmasculinethe Devil
- 3
masculinehammer
- 4
masculinea type of artillery
adjective
- 1
archaicwhite-haired
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinekhan
suffix
- 1
feminine-tion
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculinelie; nonsense talk
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. cruel, brutal, dominador
noun: 1. animal mamífero, carnívoro e quadrúpede da família dos canídeos; Canis familiaris 2. parte da arma de fogo que inicia a movimentação da cápsula (bala) 3. gênio do mal em geral ("capeta") 4. título de alguns soberanos ou líderes mongóis e persas
suffix: 1. terminação utilizada na formação de substantivos derivados de verbos com a ideia de ação, processo
noun: 1. mentira, dito não verdadeiro
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 cão
- cães plural
- cadela feminine
- cadelas feminine plural
- cã feminine
- cãos masculine plural
- cãs feminine plural
- caôs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cão in Portuguese?
cão appears 29 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).