tapinha
Portuguese, noun/taˈpĩ.ɲɐ/
tapinha is spelled T-A-P-I-N-H-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapinha is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “diminutive of tapa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tapa dado de forma leve”.
What does tapinha mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinediminutive of tapa
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tapa dado de forma leve
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 tapinha
- tapinhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapinha?
- Brazil /taˈpĩ.ɲɐ/
- Brazil [taˈpĩ.j̃ɐ]
- Portugal /tɐˈpi.ɲɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tapinha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tapinha in Portuguese?
tapinha appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).