autocontrole
Portuguese, noun
autocontrole is spelled A-U-T-O-C-O-N-T-R-O-L-E (12 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Autocontrole is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “self-control (ability to control one’s desires and impulses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “capacidade de controlar os próprios impulsos”.
What does autocontrole mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineself-control (ability to control one’s desires and impulses)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. capacidade de controlar os próprios impulsos
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 autocontrole
- autocontroles plural
- autocontrolo alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is autocontrole in Portuguese?
autocontrole appears 1.1 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).