cinco
Portuguese, noun/ˈsĩ.ku/
cinco is spelled C-I-N-C-O (5 letters) and appears 245 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 374th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cinco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “five” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o número cinco (5, V)”.
What does cinco mean in English?
number
- 1
femininemasculinefive
noun
- 1
masculinefive
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. número equivalente a quatro mais um; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha cinco elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 5 (algarismos arábicos) ou V (algarismos romanos)
noun: 1. o número cinco (5, V) 2. nota correspondente a cinco valores 3. pessoa ou coisa que apresenta o número cinco numa ordenação
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 cinco
- cincos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cinco?
- Brazil /ˈsĩ.ku/
- Portugal /ˈsĩ.ku/
- /ˈsɪ̃k/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cinco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cinco in Portuguese?
cinco appears 245 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).