cancro
Portuguese, noun/ˈkɐ̃.kɾu/
cancro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cancer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tumor maligno”.
What does cancro mean in English?
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinecancer
- 2
Portugalmasculinea very undesirable, prejudicial or in any other way negative thing
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tumor maligno 2. lesão peniana decorrente de doença sexualmente transmissível (mais comumente, sífilis)
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 cancro
- cancros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cancro?
- Brazil /ˈkɐ̃.kɾu/
- Portugal /ˈkɐ̃.kɾu/
- /ˈkɜ̃kru/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cancro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cancro in Portuguese?
cancro appears 7.4 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).