cifose
Portuguese, noun/siˈfɔ.zi/
cifose is spelled C-I-F-O-S-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 132,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cifose is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “kyphosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “curvatura anômala da espinha dorsal para trás, isto é, formando convexidade posterior”.
What does cifose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekyphosis
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. curvatura anômala da espinha dorsal para trás, isto é, formando convexidade posterior 2. curvatura anômala da coluna vertebral para trás
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 cifose
- cifoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cifose?
- Brazil /siˈfɔ.zi/
- Portugal /siˈfɔ.zɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cifose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cifose in Portuguese?
cifose appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).