comparação
Portuguese, noun/kõ.pa.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/
comparação is spelled C-O-M-P-A-R-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,936th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Comparação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “comparison (the act of comparing or the state of being compared)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o fato de comparar; cotejamento”.
What does comparação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecomparison (the act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o fato de comparar; cotejamento 2. figura de linguagem semelhante à metáfora usada para confrontar qualidades ou ações de elementos
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 comparação
- comparações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce comparação?
- Brazil /kõ.pa.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [kõ.pa.ɾaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /kõ.pɐ.ɾɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to comparação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is comparação in Portuguese?
comparação appears 30 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).