pacu
Portuguese, noun
pacu is spelled P-A-C-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 71,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacu is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pacu (any of several species of South American fishes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pacú is a different word: “prescribed spelling of pacu under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931…”.
What does pacu mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepacu (any of several species of South American fishes)
noun
- 1
masculineprescribed spelling of pacu under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented; now a common misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pacu
- pacus plural
- pacú alternative
- pacús plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pacu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pacu in Portuguese?
pacu appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).