suricato
Portuguese, noun/su.ɾiˈka.tu/
suricato is spelled S-U-R-I-C-A-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Suricato is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of suricate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mamífero carnívoro da família Herpestidae, de nome científico Suricata suricatta, único representante do…”.
What does suricato mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of suricate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mamífero carnívoro da família Herpestidae, de nome científico Suricata suricatta, único representante do gênero Suricata, nativo do sul da África, conhecido pelo comportamento social e pela postura ereta ao vigiar o ambiente.
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 suricato
- suricatos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce suricato?
- Brazil /su.ɾiˈka.tu/
- Portugal /su.ɾiˈka.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 suricato
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is suricato in Portuguese?
suricato appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).