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acrônimo

Portuguese, noun

acrônimo is spelled A-C-R-Ô-N-I-M-O (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acrônimo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of acrónimo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, acrónimo is a different word: “acronym (word formed by initial letters)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “palavra composta pelo conjunto de letras ou por sílabas de um termo com mais de uma palavra e pronunciado…”.

What does acrônimo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of acrónimo

noun

as acrónimo
  1. 1

    masculineacronym (word formed by initial letters)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. palavra composta pelo conjunto de letras ou por sílabas de um termo com mais de uma palavra e pronunciado normalmente, ao invés de falar letra a letra, como é comum nas siglas

noun: 1. palavra composta pelo conjunto de letras ou por sílabas de um termo com mais de uma palavra e pronunciado regularmente, ao invés de letra a letra

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 acrônimo

  • acrónimos plural
  • acrônimo alternative Brazil
  • acrônimos plural

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

English words that translate to acrônimo

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

How common is acrônimo in Portuguese?

acrônimo appears 2.0 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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