frangote
Portuguese, noun/fɾɐ̃ˈɡɔ.t͡ʃi/
frangote is spelled F-R-A-N-G-O-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frangote is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “young or adolescent boy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of frango: small chicken. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “frango pequeno”.
What does frangote mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminutive of frango: small chicken
- 2
colloquialmasculineyoung or adolescent boy
- 3
colloquialmasculinepresumptuous boy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. frango pequeno 2. rapazinho vaidoso, empertigado
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 frangote
- frangotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frangote?
- Brazil /fɾɐ̃ˈɡɔ.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /fɾɐ̃ˈɡɔ.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frangote in Portuguese?
frangote appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).