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arigatô

Portuguese, interjection/a.ɾi.ɡaˈto/

arigatô is a Portuguese interjection meaning “arigato (“thank you”, used in the context of, or to evoke, Japanese culture)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “obrigado; agradecimentos; graças”.

What does arigatô mean in English?

interjection

  1. 1

    arigato (“thank you”, used in the context of, or to evoke, Japanese culture)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

interjection: 1. obrigado; agradecimentos; graças

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 arigatô?

  • Brazil /a.ɾi.ɡaˈto/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to arigatô

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is arigatô in Portuguese?

arigatô appears about once in every 54 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).