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tachado

Portuguese, adjective/taˈʃa.du/

tachado is spelled T-A-C-H-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tachado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “labeled, branded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of tachar.

What does tachado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    labeled, branded

  2. 2

    criticised

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of tachar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. estilo de letra em que uma letra, palavra ou número é riscado (a)

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 tachado

  • tachada feminine
  • tachados masculine plural
  • tachadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce tachado?

  • Brazil /taˈʃa.du/
  • Portugal /tɐˈʃa.du/
  • Portugal [tɐˈʃa.ðu]

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

How common is tachado in Portuguese?

tachado appears about once in every 4 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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