filhota
Portuguese, noun/fiˈʎɔ.tɐ/
filhota is spelled F-I-L-H-O-T-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 44,272nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filhota is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diminutive of filha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forma carinhosa de se chamar uma filha”.
What does filhota mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediminutive of filha
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. forma carinhosa de se chamar uma filha
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 filhota
- filhotas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce filhota?
- Brazil /fiˈʎɔ.tɐ/
- Portugal /fiˈʎɔ.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is filhota in Portuguese?
filhota appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).