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horror

Portuguese, noun/oˈʁoʁ/

horror is spelled H-O-R-R-O-R (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,176th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Horror is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “horror” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sensação arrepiante de medo ou repulsão”.

What does horror mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehorror

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. sensação arrepiante de medo ou repulsão 2. ódio 3. coisa horrível 4. quantia elevada de dinheiro

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 horror

  • horrores plural

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

How do you pronounce horror?

  • Brazil /oˈʁoʁ/
  • Brazil [oˈhoh]
  • /oˈʁoɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to horror

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is horror in Portuguese?

horror appears 15 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).

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