parentada
Portuguese, noun/pa.ɾẽˈta.dɐ/
parentada is spelled P-A-R-E-N-T-A-D-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parentada is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “the collective of one’s relatives, implying an excessive number of them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does parentada mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininethe collective of one’s relatives, implying an excessive number of them.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of parentada
- parentadas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce parentada?
- Brazil /pa.ɾẽˈta.dɐ/
- Portugal /pɐ.ɾẽˈta.dɐ/
- Portugal [pɐ.ɾẽˈta.ðɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is parentada in Portuguese?
parentada appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).