castanhola
Portuguese, noun
castanhola is spelled C-A-S-T-A-N-H-O-L-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 153,088th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Castanhola is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “castanet (a single handheld percussion instrument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of castanholar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento usado para danças típicas da Espanha”.
What does castanhola mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecastanet (a single handheld percussion instrument)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumento usado para danças típicas da Espanha 2. batata
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 castanhola
- castanholas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to castanhola
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is castanhola in Portuguese?
castanhola appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).