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colher

Portuguese, noun

colher is spelled C-O-L-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colher is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “spoon (eating utensil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, colhêr is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “utensílio formado por um cabo e uma parte côncava ou concha”.

What does colher mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininespoon (eating utensil)

verb

  1. 1

    to harvest, get, reap, gather

verb

as colhêr
  1. 1

    pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of colher

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. utensílio formado por um cabo e uma parte côncava ou concha 2. quantidade de alimento ou tempero que cabe numa colher¹

verb: 1. apanhar (frutos ou plantas) 2. cortar (flores) 3. amainar (as velas)

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 colher

  • colheres plural
  • colho first-person present singular
  • colhi first-person preterite singular
  • colhido participle past
  • colhermos first-person infinitive plural
  • colherdes infinitive plural second-person
  • colherem infinitive plural third-person
  • colhendo gerund
  • colhidos masculine participle past
  • colhida feminine participle past
  • colhidas feminine participle past
  • colhes indicative present second-person
  • colhe indicative present singular
  • colhemos first-person indicative plural
  • colheis indicative plural present
  • colhem indicative plural present
  • colhia first-person imperfect indicative
  • colhias imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to colher

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is colher in Portuguese?

colher appears 12 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).

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