tarouco

Portuguese, adjective/taˈɾo(w).ku/

tarouco is a Portuguese adjective meaning “silly, foolish, idiot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tarouco mean in English?

adjective

1
colloquialsilly, foolish, idiot

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

Forms of tarouco

tarouca feminine
taroucos masculine plural
taroucas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce tarouco?

Brazil /taˈɾo(w).ku/
Brazil [taˈɾo(ʊ̯).ku]
Portugal /tɐˈɾo(w).ku/

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

How common is tarouco in Portuguese?

tarouco appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.

tarouco0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).