assédio
Portuguese, noun
assédio is spelled A-S-S-É-D-I-O (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assédio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “assault” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, assedio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “operações militares, em frente ou à volta de uma praça, para a tomar”.
What does assédio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineassault
- 2
masculineharassment
- 3
masculinesiege
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of assédio
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of assediar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. operações militares, em frente ou à volta de uma praça, para a tomar 2. cerco, sítio 3. insistência impertinente junto de alguém
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 assédio
- assedios plural
- assédios plural
- assedio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to assédio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assédio in Portuguese?
assédio appears 8.7 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).