cabouco
Portuguese, noun/kaˈbo(w).ku/
cabouco is spelled C-A-B-O-U-C-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabouco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of cavouco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “buraco feito no chão”.
What does cabouco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of cavouco
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. buraco feito no chão 2. escavação, qualquer escavação para lançamento de alicerces de alguma coisa como de uma construção por exemplo 3. no moinho de água, entalhe, pequena cova dentro da que gira o eixo do rodízio inferiormente
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 cabouco
- caboucos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabouco?
- Brazil /kaˈbo(w).ku/
- Brazil [kaˈbo(ʊ̯).ku]
- Portugal /kɐˈbo(w).ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cabouco in Portuguese?
cabouco appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).