empadinha
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.paˈd͡ʒĩ.ɲɐ/
empadinha is spelled E-M-P-A-D-I-N-H-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empadinha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diminutive of empada” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequena empada, geralmente servida como salgado individual, feita com massa podre ou massa amanteigada e…”.
What does empadinha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediminutive of empada
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequena empada, geralmente servida como salgado individual, feita com massa podre ou massa amanteigada e recheada com frango, palmito, camarão, entre outros 2. item típico de lanchonetes, festas e padarias brasileiras, apreciado como lanche ou entrada
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 empadinha
- empadinhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empadinha?
- Brazil /ẽ.paˈd͡ʒĩ.ɲɐ/
- Brazil [ẽ.paˈd͡ʒĩ.j̃ɐ]
- Brazil /ĩ.paˈd͡ʒĩ.ɲɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empadinha in Portuguese?
empadinha appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).