maracas
Portuguese, noun
maracas is spelled M-A-R-A-C-A-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maracas is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “plural of maraca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, maracás is a different word: “plural of maracá”.
What does maracas mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of maraca
noun
- 1
plural of maracá
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado da Bahia
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 maracas in Portuguese?
maracas appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).