chikungunya
Portuguese, noun
chikungunya is spelled C-H-I-K-U-N-G-U-N-Y-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 80,231st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chikungunya is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of chicungunha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver chicungunha”.
What does chikungunya mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of chicungunha
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver chicungunha
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 chikungunya in Portuguese?
chikungunya appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).