cômpito
Portuguese, noun
cômpito is spelled C-Ô-M-P-I-T-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese, the 180,215th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cômpito is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “crossroad, intersection (point of concurrence of several paths)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, compito is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of competir”.
What does cômpito mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrossroad, intersection (point of concurrence of several paths)
noun
- 1
masculinemeasure
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of competir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cômpito
- cômpitos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cômpito in Portuguese?
cômpito appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).