cabum
Portuguese, interjection/kaˈbũ/
cabum is spelled C-A-B-U-M (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 124,583rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabum is a Portuguese interjection meaning “kaboom (the sound of an explosion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cabum mean in English?
interjection
- 1
kaboom (the sound of an explosion)
- 2
the sound of thunder
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cabum
- cabum! canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabum?
- Brazil /kaˈbũ/
- Portugal /kɐˈbũ/
- Portugal [kɐˈβũ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabum
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabum in Portuguese?
cabum appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).