chamma
Portuguese, noun
chamma is spelled C-H-A-M-M-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chamma is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of chama” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide chama”.
What does chamma mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of chama
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide chama
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 chamma
- chammas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is chamma in Portuguese?
chamma 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).