chicane
Portuguese, verb
chicane is spelled C-H-I-C-A-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chicane is a Portuguese verb meaning “first/third-person singular present subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does chicane mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. traçado de pista em que há uma curva que segue num sentido seguida de curva à saída da primeira que vai no sentido oposto
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.
How common is chicane in Portuguese?
chicane appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).