gagá
Portuguese, adjective
gagá is spelled G-A-G-Á (4 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,632nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gagá is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “gaga (exhibiting deterioration in the mind; mentally senile)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, gaga is a different word: “female equivalent of gago”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “diz-se da pessoa idosa que apresenta alguma deficiência mental atribuída à idade avançada”.
What does gagá mean in English?
adjective
- 1
feminineinformalmasculinegaga (exhibiting deterioration in the mind; mentally senile)
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of gago
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of gago
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se da pessoa idosa que apresenta alguma deficiência mental atribuída à idade avançada
noun: 1. pessoa idosa que apresenta alguma deficiência mental atribuída à idade avançada
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 gagá
- gagás plural
- gagas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gagá
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gagá in Portuguese?
gagá appears 6.9 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).