tracinho

Portuguese, noun/tɾaˈsĩ.ɲu/

tracinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hyphen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of traço.

What does tracinho mean in English?

noun

1
masculinediminutive of traço
2
colloquialmasculinehyphen

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

Forms of tracinho

tracinhos plural

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

How do you pronounce tracinho?

Brazil /tɾaˈsĩ.ɲu/
Brazil [tɾaˈsĩ.j̃u]
Portugal /tɾɐˈsi.ɲu/

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

How common is tracinho in Portuguese?

tracinho appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.

tracinho0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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).