canasta
Portuguese, noun/kaˈnas.tɐ/
canasta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “canasta (game for two or four players, in which two decks of 52 cards are used, and whose objective is to obtain series of seven cards of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does canasta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecanasta (game for two or four players, in which two decks of 52 cards are used, and whose objective is to obtain series of seven cards of equal value)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of canasta
- canastas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canasta?
- Brazil /kaˈnas.tɐ/
- /kaˈnaʃ.tɐ/
- Portugal /kɐˈnaʃ.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to canasta
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is canasta in Portuguese?
canasta 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).