seppuku
Portuguese, noun
seppuku is spelled S-E-P-P-U-K-U (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seppuku is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “seppuku (ritual Japanese suicide by disembowelment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “haraquiri”.
What does seppuku mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineseppuku (ritual Japanese suicide by disembowelment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. haraquiri
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 seppuku
- seppukus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to seppuku
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seppuku in Portuguese?
seppuku appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).