rumor
Portuguese, noun/ʁuˈmoʁ/
rumor is spelled R-U-M-O-R (5 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,900th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rumor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “rumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ruído de vozes”.
What does rumor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerumour (statement or claim from no known reliable source)
- 2
masculinecontinuous noise
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ruído de vozes 2. murmúrio 3. boato
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 rumor
- rumores plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rumor?
- Brazil /ʁuˈmoʁ/
- Brazil [huˈmoh]
- /ʁuˈmoɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rumor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rumor in Portuguese?
rumor appears 4.2 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).