faxina
Portuguese, noun/faˈʃĩ.nɐ/
faxina is spelled F-A-X-I-N-A (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,227th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faxina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “fascine (cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of faxinar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de fazer uma limpeza pesada e longa de um lugar”.
What does faxina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefascine (cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood)
- 2
femininefaggot (bundle of brushwood)
- 3
femininecleaning of an environment, specially a domestic one
- 4
femininefatigue duty
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-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. ato de fazer uma limpeza pesada e longa de um lugar
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 faxina
- faxinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faxina?
- Brazil /faˈʃĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /fɐˈʃi.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faxina in Portuguese?
faxina appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).