atento
Portuguese, adjective/aˈtẽ.tu/
atento is spelled A-T-E-N-T-O (6 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,879th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atento is a Portuguese adjective meaning “attentive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of atentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que presta atenção”.
What does atento mean in English?
adjective
- 1
attentive
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of atentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que presta atenção 2. aplicado
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 atento
- atenta feminine
- atentos masculine plural
- atentas feminine plural
- mais atento comparative
- o mais atento superlative
- atentíssimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atento?
- Brazil /aˈtẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐˈtẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.ˈtẽ.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 atento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atento in Portuguese?
atento appears 9.1 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).