ratinho
Portuguese, noun/ʁaˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/
ratinho is spelled R-A-T-I-N-H-O (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 18,272nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ratinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “diminutive of rato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instante, pequeno espaço de tempo”.
What does ratinho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminutive of rato
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instante, pequeno espaço de tempo
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 ratinho
- ratinhos plural
- ratinha feminine
- ratinhas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ratinho?
- Brazil /ʁaˈt͡ʃĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [haˈt͡ʃĩ.j̃u]
- /ʁaˈt͡ʃĩ.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 ratinho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ratinho in Portuguese?
ratinho appears 2.8 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).