carapuça
Portuguese, noun/ka.ɾaˈpu.sɐ/
carapuça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a flexible, conical cap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “barrete de forma cónica (de lã ou pano)”.
What does carapuça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea flexible, conical cap
- 2
feminineindirect censorship
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. barrete de forma cónica (de lã ou pano)
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 carapuça
- carapuças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carapuça?
- Brazil /ka.ɾaˈpu.sɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.ɾɐˈpu.sɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ.ɾɐ.ˈpu.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is carapuça in Portuguese?
carapuça appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).