cupuaçu
Portuguese, noun
cupuaçu is spelled C-U-P-U-A-Ç-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,234th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cupuaçu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum, a tree of South America)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, cupuaçú is a different word: “prescribed spelling of cupuaçu under the Orthographic Agreement of…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fruto doce produzido pelo árvore homônima”.
What does cupuaçu mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinecupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum, a tree of South America)
- 2
Brazilmasculinethe fruit of the cupuassu tree, used to make a confectionery similar to chocolate
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of cupuaçu under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fruto doce produzido pelo árvore homônima 2. árvore esterculiácea cujo fruto é o cupu
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 cupuaçu
- cupuaçus plural
- cupuaçú alternative
- cupuassu alternative obsolete
- cupuassú alternative obsolete
- cupu-açu alternative obsolete
- cupu-açú alternative obsolete
- cupú-açú alternative obsolete
- cupu-assu alternative obsolete
- cupu-assú alternative obsolete
- cupú-assú alternative obsolete
- cupuaçús plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cupuaçu in Portuguese?
cupuaçu appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).