aguante
Portuguese, noun/aˈɡwɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
aguante is spelled A-G-U-A-N-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese, the 201,356th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aguante is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “strength” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “resistência oposta pelo navio às marés e ao vento”.
What does aguante mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinestrength
- 2
masculineslangportion of sail that a ship can support
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. resistência oposta pelo navio às marés e ao vento. 2. o que o navio pode suster de velame.
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 aguante
- aguantes plural
- a.guan.te canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aguante?
- Brazil /aˈɡwɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /ɐˈɡwɐ̃.tɨ/
- Portugal [ɐˈɣwɐ̃.tɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aguante in Portuguese?
aguante appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).