pororoca
Portuguese, noun/po.ɾoˈɾɔ.kɐ/
pororoca is spelled P-O-R-O-R-O-C-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pororoca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pororoca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “onda com vários metros de altura que se forma na foz do Amazonas quando das grandes marés”.
What does pororoca mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininepororoca
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. onda com vários metros de altura que se forma na foz do Amazonas quando das grandes marés 2. macaréu 3. melancia pequena
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 pororoca
- pororocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pororoca?
- Brazil /po.ɾoˈɾɔ.kɐ/
- Brazil /pɔ.ɾɔˈɾɔ.kɐ/
- Portugal /pɔ.ɾɔˈɾɔ.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pororoca in Portuguese?
pororoca appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).