corre
Portuguese, noun
corre is spelled C-O-R-R-E (5 letters) and appears 36 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corre is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “strife, fight (hard work)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of correr. With an accent, corré is a different word: “female equivalent of corréu”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cada uma das medranças, gavinhas ou hastes delgadas e trepadoras de feijoeiros hortenses e outras plantas”.
What does corre mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculineslangstrife, fight (hard work)
Todo mundo tem o seu corre diário.
- 2
Brazilmasculineslanga specific job or gig
- 3
Brazilmasculineslangthe act of buying, selling, or transporting illegal drugs or other illicit products, or the product itself
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of corréu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cada uma das medranças, gavinhas ou hastes delgadas e trepadoras de feijoeiros hortenses e outras plantas
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 corre
- corres plural
- corrés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is corre in Portuguese?
corre appears 36 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).