cancan

Portuguese, noun/kɐ̃ˈkɐ̃/

cancan is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of cancã” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does cancan mean in English?

noun

1
masculinealternative form of cancã

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

How do you pronounce cancan?

Brazil /kɐ̃ˈkɐ̃/
Portugal /kɐ̃ˈkan/

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

How common is cancan in Portuguese?

cancan appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.

cancan0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

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