chacal
Portuguese, noun/ʃaˈkaw/
chacal is spelled C-H-A-C-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 39,523rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chacal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “jackal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome genérico de diversas espécies de canídeos, entre eles o Canis mesomelas e o Canis aureus”.
What does chacal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejackal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome genérico de diversas espécies de canídeos, entre eles o Canis mesomelas e o Canis aureus 2. mamífero carnívoro da Ásia e da África, do tamanho de uma raposa, que se alimenta principalmente com os restos deixados pelos grandes animais 3. pessoa que explora os desgraçados, oportunista
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 chacal
- chacais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chacal?
- Brazil /ʃaˈkaw/
- Brazil [ʃaˈkaʊ̯]
- Portugal /ʃɐˈkal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chacal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chacal in Portuguese?
chacal 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).