apego
Portuguese, noun/aˈpe.ɡu/
apego is spelled A-P-E-G-O (5 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,758th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apego is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “affection” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of apegar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ligação afetiva; estima, afeição”.
What does apego mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaffection
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of apegar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ligação afetiva; estima, afeição
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 apego
- apegos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apego?
- Brazil /aˈpe.ɡu/
- Portugal /ɐˈpe.ɡu/
- Portugal [ɐˈpe.ɣu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apego
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apego in Portuguese?
apego appears 3.5 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).