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oculto

Portuguese, adjective/oˈkuw.tu/

oculto is spelled O-C-U-L-T-O (6 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 13,900th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oculto is a Portuguese adjective meaning “hidden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of ocultar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “escondido”.

What does oculto mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    hidden

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of ocultar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. escondido 2. sobrenatural

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 oculto

  • oculta feminine
  • ocultos masculine plural
  • ocultas feminine plural
  • mais oculto comparative
  • o mais oculto superlative
  • ocultíssimo superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce oculto?

  • Brazil /oˈkuw.tu/
  • Brazil [oˈkuʊ̯.tu]
  • Portugal /ɔˈkul.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to oculto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is oculto in Portuguese?

oculto appears 4.2 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).

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