maracatu
Portuguese, noun/ma.ɾa.kaˈtu/
maracatu is spelled M-A-R-A-C-A-T-U (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maracatu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “maracatu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ritmo musical, dança e ritual de sincretismo religioso cristão com as crenças africanas com origem no estado…”.
What does maracatu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemaracatu
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ritmo musical, dança e ritual de sincretismo religioso cristão com as crenças africanas com origem no estado de Pernambuco
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 do you pronounce maracatu?
- Brazil /ma.ɾa.kaˈtu/
- Portugal /mɐ.ɾɐ.kɐˈtu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maracatu in Portuguese?
maracatu appears 1.1 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).