rapé
Portuguese, noun
rapé is spelled R-A-P-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,864th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rapé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “snuff (finely ground or pulverised tobacco for sniffing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, rape is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tabaco em pó para inalar”.
What does rapé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesnuff (finely ground or pulverised tobacco for sniffing)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tabaco em pó para inalar
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 rapé
- rapés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rapé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rapé in Portuguese?
rapé appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).