-acho
Portuguese, suffix
-acho is spelled A-C-H-O (4 letters) and appears 603 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 151st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -acho is a Portuguese masculine suffix meaning “forms diminutives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, acho is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of achar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sufixo diminutivo por vezes com matiz pejorativo”.
What does -acho mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculineforms diminutives
rio + -acho → riacho
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of achar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. sufixo diminutivo por vezes com matiz pejorativo
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.
English words that translate to -acho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -acho in Portuguese?
-acho appears 603 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).