assentamento
Portuguese, noun/a.sẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
assentamento is spelled A-S-S-E-N-T-A-M-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assentamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “settlement (a colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de assentar”.
What does assentamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesettlement (a colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de assentar 2. local onde se assentou
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 assentamento
- assentamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assentamento?
- Brazil /a.sẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.sẽ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assentamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assentamento in Portuguese?
assentamento appears 6.5 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).