cachaço
Portuguese, noun/kaˈʃa.su/
cachaço is spelled C-A-C-H-A-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cachaço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “parte posterior do colo ou pescoço; pescoço grosso”.
What does cachaço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenape
- 2
masculineclod (part of a shoulder or neck of beef)
- 3
masculineboar (male pig)
- 4
colloquialmasculinearrogance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. parte posterior do colo ou pescoço; pescoço grosso 2. pancada ou soco dado na parte posterior do pescoço 3. porco de cobrição; varrão 4. porco gordo; porco cevado
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 cachaço
- cachaços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cachaço?
- Brazil /kaˈʃa.su/
- Portugal /kɐˈʃa.su/
- Portugal /kɐtˈʃa.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cachaço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cachaço in Portuguese?
cachaço appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).