absenteísmo
Portuguese, noun/ab.sẽ.teˈiz.mu/
absenteísmo is spelled A-B-S-E-N-T-E-Í-S-M-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absenteísmo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of absentismo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o fato de faltar regularmente ao trabalho”.
What does absenteísmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of absentismo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o fato de faltar regularmente ao trabalho 2. o fato de não votar numa eleição
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 absenteísmo
- absenteísmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce absenteísmo?
- Brazil /ab.sẽ.teˈiz.mu/
- Brazil /a.bi.sẽ.teˈiz.mu/
- Brazil /ab.zẽ.teˈiz.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is absenteísmo in Portuguese?
absenteísmo appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).