confisco
Portuguese, noun/kõˈfis.ku/
confisco is spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-C-O (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,005th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confisco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “confiscation (the act or process of confiscating something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of confiscar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de confiscar”.
What does confisco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconfiscation (the act or process of confiscating something)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of confiscar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de confiscar 2. confisco¹ realizado pelo Estado como penalidade
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 confisco
- confiscos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confisco?
- Brazil /kõˈfis.ku/
- /kõˈfiʃ.ku/
- Portugal /kõˈfiʃ.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confisco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confisco in Portuguese?
confisco appears 1.4 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).