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arrastamento

Portuguese, noun/a.ʁas.taˈmẽ.tu/

arrastamento is spelled A-R-R-A-S-T-A-M-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 82,742nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrastamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “act of dragging” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de arrastar”.

What does arrastamento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineact of dragging

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. o ato de arrastar

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 arrastamento

  • arrastamentos plural

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

How do you pronounce arrastamento?

  • Brazil /a.ʁas.taˈmẽ.tu/
  • Brazil [a.has.taˈmẽ.tu]
  • /a.ʁaʃ.taˈmẽ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is arrastamento in Portuguese?

arrastamento appears about once in every 7 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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