cascais
Portuguese, noun/kasˈkajs/
cascais is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plural of cascal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “município e freguesia portugueses do distrito de Lisboa”.
What does cascais mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplural of cascal
verb
- 1
second-person plural present indicative of cascar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município e freguesia portugueses do distrito de Lisboa
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.
How do you pronounce cascais?
- Brazil /kasˈkajs/
- Brazil [kasˈkaɪ̯s]
- /kaʃˈkajʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cascais in Portuguese?
cascais appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).