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kuduro

noun

kuduro is spelled K-U-D-U-R-O: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kuduro means “An energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in kuduro?

Letters6: K-U-D-U-R-O
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is kuduro?

Kuduro appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

Forms of kuduro

  • kuduru

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does kuduro mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk and soca.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Kuduro in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense style of music:

LanguageWords
Frenchkuduro
Portuguesekuduro

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 kuduro come from?

Borrowed from Portuguese kuduro.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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