machete
Portuguese, noun/maˈʃe.t͡ʃi/
machete is spelled M-A-C-H-E-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,491st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machete is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “machete” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “faca grande para cortar mato”.
What does machete mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemachete
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. faca grande para cortar mato 2. cavaquinho
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 machete
- machetes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machete?
- Brazil /maˈʃe.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /mɐˈʃe.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to machete
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is machete in Portuguese?
machete 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).