tráfico
Portuguese, noun
tráfico is spelled T-R-Á-F-I-C-O (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,212th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tráfico is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “traffic (commercial transportation or exchange of goods)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, trafico is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of traficar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “comércio ilegal”.
What does tráfico mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetraffic (commercial transportation or exchange of goods)
- 2
informalmasculinetrafficking (illegal trade with drugs, firearms etc.)
Tráfico de pessoas é crime.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of traficar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. comércio ilegal 2. contrabando de escravos com a costa da África; tráfico negreiro
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 tráfico
- tráficos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tráfico
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tráfico in Portuguese?
tráfico appears 20 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).