cuir
Portuguese, adjective
cuir is spelled C-U-I-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written Portuguese, the 221,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cuir is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “alternative form of queer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cuír is a different word: “alternative form of queer”.
What does cuir mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinealternative form of queer
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinealternative form of queer
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cuir
- cuirs plural
- cuírs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cuir in Portuguese?
cuir appears about once in every 65 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).