capicua
Portuguese, noun/ka.piˈku.ɐ/
capicua is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “palindromic number, palindrome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “número (ou conjunto de números) cujo reverso é ele próprio”.
What does capicua mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepalindromic number, palindrome
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. número (ou conjunto de números) cujo reverso é ele próprio 2. pedra que pode ganhar uma partida de dominó em qualquer uma das pontas
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 capicua
- capicuas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce capicua?
- Brazil /ka.piˈku.ɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.piˈku.ɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.pi.ˈku.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to capicua
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is capicua in Portuguese?
capicua appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).