chicungunha
Portuguese, noun/ʃi.kũˈɡũ.ɲɐ/
chicungunha is spelled C-H-I-C-U-N-G-U-N-H-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chicungunha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “chikungunya” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doença (febre) transmitida pelo mosquito Aedes aegypti, o mesmo que transmite a dengue”.
What does chicungunha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininechikungunya
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doença (febre) transmitida pelo mosquito Aedes aegypti, o mesmo que transmite a dengue
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 chicungunha
- chikungunya alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chicungunha?
- Brazil /ʃi.kũˈɡũ.ɲɐ/
- Brazil [ʃi.kũˈɡũ.j̃ɐ]
- Portugal /ʃi.kũˈɡu.ɲɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chicungunha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chicungunha in Portuguese?
chicungunha appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).