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chute

Portuguese, noun/ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/

chute is spelled C-H-U-T-E (5 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,879th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chute is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “kick (hit or strike with the leg or foot)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chutar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de chutar”.

What does chute mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinekick (hit or strike with the leg or foot)

  2. 2

    masculineshot; kick (act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal)

  3. 3

    Brazilinformalmasculinehunch, guess (prediction about the outcome of something)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 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. o ato de chutar 2. pancada dada com o pé; ponta-pé 3. a tentativa de acertar uma resposta sobre algo que pouco ou nada se sabe 4. o ato de dispensar ou rejeitar; fora

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 chute

  • chutes plural
  • shoot alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chute?

  • Brazil /ˈʃu.t͡ʃi/
  • Portugal /ˈʃu.tɨ/
  • Portugal /ˈt͡ʃu.tɨ/

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

English words that translate to chute

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

How common is chute in Portuguese?

chute appears 9.1 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).

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