rubor
Portuguese, noun/ʁuˈboʁ/
rubor is spelled R-U-B-O-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rubor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “blush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “característica do que é rubro”.
What does rubor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblush
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. característica do que é rubro 2. vermelhidão 3. cor vermelha 4. enrubescimento
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 rubor
- rubores plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rubor?
- Brazil /ʁuˈboʁ/
- Brazil [huˈboh]
- /ʁuˈboɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rubor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rubor in Portuguese?
rubor appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).