afundamento
Portuguese, noun/ɐ.fũ.dɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
afundamento is spelled A-F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afundamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sinking (the process of sinking)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de afundar”.
What does afundamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesinking (the process of sinking)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de afundar
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 afundamento
- afundamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afundamento?
- Portugal /ɐ.fũ.dɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afundamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afundamento in Portuguese?
afundamento appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).