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cacetada

Portuguese, noun/ka.seˈta.dɐ/

cacetada is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a blow or strike with a bat or stick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de bater com cacete”.

What does cacetada mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininea blow or strike with a bat or stick

    Ele levou uma cacetada.

  2. 2

    feminineany blow or strike

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ação de bater com cacete 2. pancada de cacete

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 cacetada

  • cacetadas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cacetada?

  • Brazil /ka.seˈta.dɐ/
  • Portugal /kɐ.sɨˈta.dɐ/
  • Portugal [kɐ.sɨˈta.ðɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is cacetada in Portuguese?

cacetada appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).