atrito
Portuguese, noun/aˈtɾi.tu/
atrito is spelled A-T-R-I-T-O (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atrito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “friction (force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of atritar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fricção”.
What does atrito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefriction (force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact)
- 2
masculinefriction (conflict between people having dissimilar ideas or interests)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of atritar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fricção
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 atrito
- atritos plural
- attrito alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atrito?
- Brazil /aˈtɾi.tu/
- Portugal /ɐˈtɾi.tu/
- Portugal /ɐ.ˈtɾi.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 atrito
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atrito in Portuguese?
atrito appears 3.2 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).