chorão
Portuguese, noun/ʃoˈɾɐ̃w̃/
chorão is spelled C-H-O-R-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,653rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chorão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “crybaby (someone who cries readily)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “espécie de salgueiro de ramos pendentes, (Salix babylonica)”.
What does chorão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrybaby (someone who cries readily)
- 2
masculinea player of choro, a genre of Brazilian popular music
- 3
masculineweeping willow (Salix babylonica) or any willow characterised by extreme pendulousness
- 4
Brazilmasculineshe-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia), of Southeast Asia and Oceania
- 5
masculinecat's claw (Carpobrotus edulis, a small plant of South Africa)
- 6
masculinered-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei, a parrot of southern South America)
- 7
masculinewhite-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera, a bird of the Amazon forest)
- 8
masculinevariegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus, a bird of Brazil)
adjective
- 1
who is a crybaby
- 2
pendulous (having branches that bend downwards)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. espécie de salgueiro de ramos pendentes, (Salix babylonica) 2. designação de várias plantas cujas hastes se inclinam e pendem de vasos ou paredes 3. macaco do Brasil 4. passarinho conirostro
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 chorão
- chorões plural
- chorona feminine
- choronas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chorão?
- Brazil /ʃoˈɾɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ʃoˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ʃuˈɾɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chorão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chorão in Portuguese?
chorão appears 2.5 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).