tareco
Portuguese, noun/taˈɾɛ.ku/
tareco is spelled T-A-R-E-C-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tareco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “trinket, old and worn-out object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto de pouco valor”.
What does tareco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrinket, old and worn-out object
- 2
Brazilmasculinea little tough biscuit made of wheat flour, eggs and sugar
adjective
- 1
naughty, mischievous
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. objeto de pouco valor 2. pessoa desassossegada 3. tipo de biscoito
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 tareco
- tarecos plural
- tareca feminine
- tarecas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tareco?
- Brazil /taˈɾɛ.ku/
- Portugal /tɐˈɾɛ.ku/
- /ta.ˈɾɛ.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tareco in Portuguese?
tareco appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).