angústia
Portuguese, noun
angústia is spelled A-N-G-Ú-S-T-I-A (8 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Angústia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “anguish, torment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, angustia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estado de sofrimento”.
What does angústia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanguish, torment
- 2
femininedistress
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado de sofrimento 2. espaço diminuído
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 angústia
- angústias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to angústia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is angústia in Portuguese?
angústia appears 5.2 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).