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absurdo

Portuguese, noun/abˈsuʁ.du/

absurdo is spelled A-B-S-U-R-D-O (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absurdo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “absurdity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “algo que não faz sentido”.

What does absurdo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    absurd

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabsurdity

  2. 2

    masculinenonsense

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que não faz sentido 2. que se opõe ao convencionado ou convencional

noun: 1. algo que não faz sentido 2. plano irrealizável; utopia

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 absurdo

  • absurda feminine
  • absurdos masculine plural
  • absurdas feminine plural
  • mais absurdo comparative
  • o mais absurdo superlative
  • absurdíssimo superlative

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

How do you pronounce absurdo?

  • Brazil /abˈsuʁ.du/
  • Brazil [abˈsuɦ.du]
  • Brazil /a.biˈsuʁ.du/

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

English words that translate to absurdo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is absurdo in Portuguese?

absurdo appears 23 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).

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