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tricolor

Portuguese, noun/tɾi.koˈloʁ/

tricolor is spelled T-R-I-C-O-L-O-R (8 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,991st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tricolor is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tricolour (flag)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualquer uma das equipes que têm três cores em sua bandeira (São Paulo, Fluminense, Grêmio, etc)”.

What does tricolor mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculinetricolor, three-colored (having three colors)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetricolour (flag)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que tem três cores 2. relativo a uma das equipes que têm três cores em sua bandeira (São Paulo, Fluminense, Grêmio, etc)

noun: 1. qualquer uma das equipes que têm três cores em sua bandeira (São Paulo, Fluminense, Grêmio, etc) 2. peixe teleósteo, perciforme, da família dos pomacantídeos

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 tricolor

  • tricolores plural

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

How do you pronounce tricolor?

  • Brazil /tɾi.koˈloʁ/
  • Brazil [tɾi.koˈloh]
  • /tɾi.koˈloɾ/

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

English words that translate to tricolor

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

How common is tricolor in Portuguese?

tricolor appears 11 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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