orco
Portuguese, noun
orco is spelled O-R-C-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese, the 150,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hell; underworld” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, orço is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of orçar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lugar onde vão os mortos”.
What does orco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehell; underworld
- 2
masculineorc
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of orçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lugar onde vão os mortos 2. inferno
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 orco
- orcos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is orco in Portuguese?
orco appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).