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caipirão

Portuguese, noun/kaj.piˈɾɐ̃w̃/

caipirão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a caipirinha made with Licor Beirão instead of cachaça” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does caipirão mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinea caipirinha made with Licor Beirão instead of cachaça

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

Forms of caipirão

  • caipirões plural

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

How do you pronounce caipirão?

  • Brazil /kaj.piˈɾɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [kaɪ̯.piˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • Portugal /kaj.piˈɾɐ̃w̃/

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

How common is caipirão in Portuguese?

caipirão appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.

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