Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cachou

/ˈkæʃuː/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ca-chou
IPA: /ˈkæʃuː/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.

noun

A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.

Example Sentences

"Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper."
"But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like violet, a synthetic smell, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink."

Etymology

From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: cachou, cachu, kacu

Inflected Forms

cachous (plural)

Phrases

cachou de Laval

Frequently Paired Words

cachou de Laval

Synonyms

catechu

Homonyms

cashew

Questions

How do you pronounce cachou?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæʃuː/.
What does cachou mean?: A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
Where does cachou come from?: It is traced to French.

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