ghetto
Portuguese, noun
ghetto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of gueto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gueto”.
What does ghetto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of gueto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gueto
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 ghetto
- ghettos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is ghetto in Portuguese?
ghetto appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).