chato
Portuguese, noun
chato is spelled C-H-A-T-O (5 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bore (a boring, uninteresting person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, chatô is a different word: “a room, house, or apartment where a single man lives”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “indivíduo inconveniente”.
What does chato mean in English?
adjective
- 1
flat
- 2
colloquialboring
O golfe é chato.
- 3
colloquialannoying
Que chato!
- 4
colloquialshameful
- 5
colloquialdisappointing
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinebore (a boring, uninteresting person)
- 2
colloquialmasculinean annoying person
- 3
masculinepubic louse
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculinea room, house, or apartment where a single man lives
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. achatado 2. maçante 3. referido ao pé, que tem pouco ou nenhum arco plantar, que é plano 4. constrangedor
noun: 1. indivíduo inconveniente 2. inseto parasita que habita normalmente os pelos pubianos
noun: 1. casa
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 chato
- chata feminine
- chatos masculine plural
- chatas feminine plural
- mais chato comparative
- o mais chato superlative
- chatíssimo superlative
- chatinho diminutive
- chatão augmentative
- mais chata comparative feminine singular
- mais chatos comparative masculine plural
- mais chatas comparative feminine plural
- chatíssima feminine singular superlative
- chatíssimos masculine plural superlative
- chatíssimas feminine plural superlative
- chatona augmentative feminine singular
- chatões augmentative masculine plural
- chatonas augmentative feminine plural
- chatinha diminutive feminine singular
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chato in Portuguese?
chato appears 18 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).