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cajón

Portuguese, noun/kaˈʁõ/

cajón is spelled C-A-J-Ó-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cajón is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cajón (box-shaped percussion instrument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does cajón mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecajón (box-shaped percussion instrument)

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

Forms of cajón

  • cajones plural

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

How do you pronounce cajón?

  • Brazil /kaˈʁõ/
  • Brazil [kaˈhõ]
  • /kaˈʁõ/

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

English words that translate to cajón

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cajón in Portuguese?

cajón appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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