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secreto

Portuguese, noun/seˈkɾɛ.tu/

secreto is spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-O (7 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,176th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Secreto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Succulent cut of pork meat taken from the muscle inside the fatty pork belly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of secretar.

What does secreto mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    secret

noun

  1. 1

    PortugalmasculineSucculent cut of pork meat taken from the muscle inside the fatty pork belly.

    secretos de porco preto com laranja

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of secretar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. algo que é feito sem o conhecimento de outros 2. aquilo que é mantido apenas entre os iniciados ou privilegiados 3. cauteloso em manter assuntos confidenciais 4. planejado e criado para escapar da atenção, conhecimento ou observação

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 secreto

  • secreta feminine
  • secretos masculine plural
  • secretas feminine plural
  • mais secreto comparative
  • o mais secreto superlative
  • secretíssimo superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce secreto?

  • Brazil /seˈkɾɛ.tu/
  • Portugal /sɨˈkɾɛ.tu/
  • Portugal /sɨ.ˈkɾɛ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to secreto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is secreto in Portuguese?

secreto appears 15 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).

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