frio
Portuguese, noun/ˈfɾi.u/
frio is spelled F-R-I-O (4 letters) and appears 68 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,429th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ausência de calor”.
What does frio mean in English?
adjective
- 1
having low temperatures; cool
- 2
insensitive
noun
- 1
masculinecold
- 2
masculinecoldness
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. falta de calor 2. arrefecido 3. gélido 4. desengraçado; insensível; desanimado
noun: 1. ausência de calor 2. sensação produzida pela falta de calor 3. frieza; indiferença
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 frio
- fria feminine
- frios masculine plural
- frias feminine plural
- mais frio comparative
- o mais frio superlative
- friíssimo superlative
- frigidíssimo superlative
- friozinho diminutive
- friinho diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frio?
- Brazil /ˈfɾi.u/
- Brazil /ˈfɾiw/
- Brazil [ˈfɾiʊ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frio in Portuguese?
frio appears 68 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).