vermelho
Portuguese, noun/veʁˈme.ʎu/
vermelho is spelled V-E-R-M-E-L-H-O (8 letters) and appears 72 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,337th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vermelho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “red (color)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of vermelhar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cor do espectro visível; a cor do sangue”.
What does vermelho mean in English?
adjective
- 1
red (having red as its color)
- 2
red (socialist or communist)
noun
- 1
masculinered (color)
- 2
masculinered (socialist or communist)
- 3
masculinered card
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of vermelhar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. atributo do que apresenta a cor vermelha
noun: 1. cor do espectro visível; a cor do sangue 2. peixe da ordem dos perciformes, do género Lutjanus
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 vermelho
- vermelha feminine
- vermelhos masculine plural
- vermelhas feminine plural
- vermelhinho diminutive
- vremeio alternative Caipira pronunciation-spelling
- vermeio alternative Caipira pronunciation-spelling
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vermelho?
- Brazil /veʁˈme.ʎu/
- Brazil [veɦˈme.ʎu]
- /veɾˈme.ʎu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vermelho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vermelho in Portuguese?
vermelho appears 72 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).