trapaça
Portuguese, noun/tɾaˈpa.sɐ/
trapaça is spelled T-R-A-P-A-Ç-A (7 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 25,577th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trapaça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a cheating; a swindle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contrato fraudulento”.
What does trapaça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea cheating; a swindle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. contrato fraudulento 2. ação de ma-fé
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 trapaça
- trapaças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trapaça?
- Brazil /tɾaˈpa.sɐ/
- Portugal /tɾɐˈpa.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trapaça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trapaça in Portuguese?
trapaça appears 1.6 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).