chachachá
Portuguese, noun/ˌʃaˌʃaˈʃa/
chachachá is spelled C-H-A-C-H-A-C-H-Á (9 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written Portuguese, the 241,242nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chachachá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cha-cha (dance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estilo de música e dança cubanos, derivados da rumba e do mambo”.
What does chachachá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecha-cha (dance)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estilo de música e dança cubanos, derivados da rumba e do mambo
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 chachachá
- chachachás plural
- chá-chá-chá alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chachachá?
- Brazil /ˌʃaˌʃaˈʃa/
- Brazil /ˌt͡ʃaˌt͡ʃaˈt͡ʃa/
- Portugal /ˌʃaˌʃaˈʃa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chachachá in Portuguese?
chachachá appears about once in every 78 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).