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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. 1

    Portugalmasculinecancer

  2. 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).