musaranho
Portuguese, noun/mu.zaˈɾɐ̃.ɲu/
musaranho is spelled M-U-S-A-R-A-N-H-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 136,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musaranho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “shrew (mouselike animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mamífero placentário, da família Soricidae, insetívoro e de hábitos noturnos; é o menor mamífero existente”.
What does musaranho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshrew (mouselike animal)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mamífero placentário, da família Soricidae, insetívoro e de hábitos noturnos; é o menor mamífero existente
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 musaranho
- musaranhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musaranho?
- Brazil /mu.zaˈɾɐ̃.ɲu/
- Brazil [mu.zaˈɾɐ̃.j̃u]
- Portugal /mu.zɐˈɾɐ.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to musaranho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is musaranho in Portuguese?
musaranho appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).