cancã
Portuguese, noun/kɐ̃ˈkɐ̃/
cancã is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cancan (French dance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quadrilha francesa pulada dançada somente por mulheres”.
What does cancã mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecancan (French dance)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. quadrilha francesa pulada dançada somente por mulheres
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 cancã
- cancãs plural
- cancan alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cancã?
- Brazil /kɐ̃ˈkɐ̃/
- Portugal /kɐ̃ˈkɐ̃/
- Portugal /kɐ̃.ˈkɐ̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cancã
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cancã in Portuguese?
cancã 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).