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gigó

Portuguese, noun

gigó is spelled G-I-G-Ó (4 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 171,147th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gigó is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “gigot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, gigô is a different word: “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of gigó”.

What does gigó mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinegigot

noun

as gigô
  1. 1

    masculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of gigó

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. o mesmo que cabaz

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 gigó

  • gigós plural
  • gigô alternative Brazil
  • gigôs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is gigó in Portuguese?

gigó appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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