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cover

Portuguese, noun/ˈko.veʁ/

cover is spelled C-O-V-E-R (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cover is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que se apresenta semelhante a outra comumente famosa, pelos traços físicos e ou modo de trajar e…”.

What does cover mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinerarecover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculineimpersonator (an entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others)

    Ele é cover do Elvis Presley.

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pessoa que se apresenta semelhante a outra comumente famosa, pelos traços físicos e ou modo de trajar e maneirismos mimetizados

noun: 1. ato ou resultado de propositalmente se assemelhar a outra pessoa comumente famosa assumindo um modo de trajar e maneirismos e ou maquiagem que aproxime a aparência de um ao outro 2. reprodução de uma obra musical que tem por objetivo ser similar mas sem pretensão de ser igual a original

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 cover

  • coveres plural

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

How do you pronounce cover?

  • Brazil /ˈko.veʁ/
  • Brazil [ˈko.veh]
  • /ˈko.veɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cover

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

How common is cover in Portuguese?

cover appears 11 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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