mutreta
Portuguese, noun/muˈtɾe.tɐ/
mutreta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “trick, deceit, ruse, swindle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atividade ilegal”.
What does mutreta mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetrick, deceit, ruse, swindle
- 2
femininelie, falsehood
- 3
femininefight, argument
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. atividade ilegal
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 mutreta
- mutretas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mutreta?
- Brazil /muˈtɾe.tɐ/
- Portugal /muˈtɾe.tɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mutreta in Portuguese?
mutreta appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).