chacoalhar
Portuguese, verb/ʃa.ko.aˈʎa(ʁ)/
chacoalhar is spelled C-H-A-C-O-A-L-H-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chacoalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shake up and down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sacudir, balançar”.
What does chacoalhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto shake up and down
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sacudir, balançar 2. agitar
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 chacoalhar
- chacoalho first-person present singular
- chacoalhei first-person preterite singular
- chacoalhado participle past
- chacoalhares infinitive second-person singular
- chacoalharmos first-person infinitive plural
- chacoalhardes infinitive plural second-person
- chacoalharem infinitive plural third-person
- chacoalhando gerund
- chacoalhados masculine participle past
- chacoalhada feminine participle past
- chacoalhadas feminine participle past
- chacoalhas indicative present second-person
- chacoalha indicative present singular
- chacoalhamos first-person indicative plural
- chacoalhais indicative plural present
- chacoalham indicative plural present
- chacoalhava first-person imperfect indicative
- chacoalhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chacoalhar?
- Brazil /ʃa.ko.aˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃa.ko.aˈʎa(h)]
- Brazil /ʃa.ku.aˈʎa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chacoalhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chacoalhar in Portuguese?
chacoalhar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).