kabuki
Portuguese, noun
kabuki is spelled K-A-B-U-K-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kabuki is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “kabuki (form of Japanese theatre)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cabúqui (teatro tradicional japonês, conhecida pela estilização do drama e pela elaborada maquiagem e…”.
What does kabuki mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekabuki (form of Japanese theatre)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cabúqui (teatro tradicional japonês, conhecida pela estilização do drama e pela elaborada maquiagem e máscaras usada por seus atores, todos homens)
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 kabuki
- cabúqui alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kabuki
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kabuki in Portuguese?
kabuki appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).