caipirinha
/ˌkaɪ.pɪˈɹiː.njə/noun
caipirinha is a noun meaning “A traditional Brazilian alcoholic drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar, and ice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-I-P-I-R-I-N-H-A, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of caipirinha is caipirinhas.
What does caipirinha mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional Brazilian alcoholic drink prepared with cachaça, lime juice, sugar, and ice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce caipirinha?
- /ˌkaɪ.pɪˈɹiː.njə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-caipirinha.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of caipirinha
- caipirinhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is caipirinha?
Caipirinha appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Caipirinha in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense traditional Brazilian alcoholic drink:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | caïpirinha |
| German | Caipirinha |
| Portuguese | caipirinha |
| Spanish | caipiriña |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does caipirinha come from?
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caipirinha (literally “little hillbilly”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).