furúnculo
Portuguese, noun/fuˈɾũ.ku.lu/
furúnculo is spelled F-U-R-Ú-N-C-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 86,274th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Furúnculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “boil (small painful nodule that forms around the root of a hair or sweat gland, due to inflammation of the cellular tissue located under…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “erupção na pele, acompanhada de vermelhidão e aquecimento do local”.
What does furúnculo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineboil (small painful nodule that forms around the root of a hair or sweat gland, due to inflammation of the cellular tissue located under the skin)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. erupção na pele, acompanhada de vermelhidão e aquecimento do local
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 furúnculo
- furúnculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce furúnculo?
- Brazil /fuˈɾũ.ku.lu/
- Portugal /fuˈɾũ.ku.lu/
- Portugal /fu.ˈɾũ.ku.lu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to furúnculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is furúnculo in Portuguese?
furúnculo appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).