capô
Portuguese, noun
capô is spelled C-A-P-Ô (4 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,685th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Capô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hood, bonnet (cover over the engine of a motor car)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, capo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of capar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cobertura que protege o motor de um veículo”.
What does capô mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehood, bonnet (cover over the engine of a motor car)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of capar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cobertura que protege o motor de um veículo
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 capô
- capôs plural
- capot alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to capô
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capô in Portuguese?
capô appears 1.1 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).