confinamento
Portuguese, noun/kõ.fi.naˈmẽ.tu/
confinamento is spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-A-M-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confinamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “lockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de confinar ou confinar-se”.
What does confinamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelockdown (the confinement of people in their own homes)
- 2
masculineconfinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de confinar ou confinar-se 2. isolamento 3. restrição da saída de um lugar 4. fronteira, limite
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 confinamento
- confinamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confinamento?
- Brazil /kõ.fi.naˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /kõ.fi.nɐˈmẽ.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 confinamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confinamento in Portuguese?
confinamento appears 2.9 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).