alcaguete
Portuguese, noun/aw.kaˈɡwɛ.t͡ʃi/
alcaguete is spelled A-L-C-A-G-U-E-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese, the 253,762nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alcaguete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “grass; informer; snitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of alcaguetar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “delator, aquele que denuncia atividade ou procedimento ilícito de alguém”.
What does alcaguete mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculinegrass; informer; snitch
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. delator, aquele que denuncia atividade ou procedimento ilícito de alguém
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 alcaguete
- alcaguetes plural
- alcagüete alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alcaguete?
- Brazil /aw.kaˈɡwɛ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.kaˈɡwɛ.t͡ʃi]
- Brazil /aw.kaˈɡɛ.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alcaguete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alcaguete in Portuguese?
alcaguete appears about once in every 87 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).