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curau

Portuguese, noun

curau is spelled C-U-R-A-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Curau is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a porridge made with maize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “espécie de pudim feito de creme de milho”.

What does curau mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Brazilmasculinea porridge made with maize

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. espécie de pudim feito de creme de milho

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 curau

  • curaus plural

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

How common is curau in Portuguese?

curau appears about once in every 13 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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