ranho
Portuguese, noun/ˈʁɐ̃.ɲu/
ranho is spelled R-A-N-H-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ranho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nasal mucus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “humor viscoso segregado pelas mucosas nasais”.
What does ranho mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinenasal mucus
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. humor viscoso segregado pelas mucosas nasais 2. muco; monco 3. meleca 4. catarro
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 ranho
- ranhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ranho?
- Brazil /ˈʁɐ̃.ɲu/
- Brazil [ˈhɐ̃.j̃u]
- /ˈʁɐ̃.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 ranho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ranho in Portuguese?
ranho appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).