cavaco
Portuguese, noun/kaˈva.ku/
cavaco is spelled C-A-V-A-C-O (6 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cavaco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “chip; splinter (small piece of wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lascas de madeira usadas para cobertura de telhados de casas no interior da Amazônia, especialmente nos…”.
What does cavaco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechip; splinter (small piece of wood)
- 2
informalmasculinechat
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. lascas de madeira usadas para cobertura de telhados de casas no interior da Amazônia, especialmente nos seringais; é uma alternativa às coberturas de palha 2. pedaço de madeira para lenha 3. bate-papo 4. pequeno cordofone de corpo semelhante a um violão, dotado de quatro cordas (geralmente), de sonoridade parecida com o bandolim e visualmente parecido com ukulele; o mesmo que cavaquinho
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 cavaco
- cavacos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cavaco?
- Brazil /kaˈva.ku/
- Portugal /kɐˈva.ku/
- Portugal /kɐˈba.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cavaco in Portuguese?
cavaco appears 3.4 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).