recado
Portuguese, noun/ʁeˈka.du/
recado is spelled R-E-C-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “message” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “participação ou aviso (verbal ou escrito, enviado por uma pessoa a outra)”.
What does recado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemessage
- 2
masculineerrand
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. participação ou aviso (verbal ou escrito, enviado por uma pessoa a outra) 2. mensagem 3. censura 4. ralho
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 recado
- recados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recado?
- Brazil /ʁeˈka.du/
- Brazil [heˈka.du]
- /ʁeˈka.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recado in Portuguese?
recado appears 18 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).