apparatchik
Portuguese, noun
apparatchik is spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-T-C-H-I-K (11 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written Portuguese, the 246,082nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apparatchik is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “apparatchik (Communist bureaucrat or agent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “membro do aparato soviético, agente ou burocrata comunista”.
What does apparatchik mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapparatchik (Communist bureaucrat or agent)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. membro do aparato soviético, agente ou burocrata comunista 2. funcionário demasiadamente leal
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 apparatchik
- apparatchiks plural
- aparatchik alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to apparatchik
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apparatchik in Portuguese?
apparatchik appears about once in every 81 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).