favor
Portuguese, noun/faˈvoʁ/
favor is spelled F-A-V-O-R (5 letters) and appears 275 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 335th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Favor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “favor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “serviço prestado sem remuneração”.
What does favor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefavor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
- 2
masculinefavor; goodwill (benevolent regard)
adverb
- 1
please (seen on warnings and the like)
Favor não pisar na grama.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. serviço prestado sem remuneração 2. benefício
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 favor
- favores plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce favor?
- Brazil /faˈvoʁ/
- Brazil [faˈvoh]
- /faˈvoɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to favor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is favor in Portuguese?
favor appears 275 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).