conforto
Portuguese, noun
conforto is spelled C-O-N-F-O-R-T-O (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,928th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conforto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “comfort; contentment; ease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of confortar. With an accent, confôrto is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de confortar”.
What does conforto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecomfort; contentment; ease
- 2
masculinecomfort (something relieving suffering or worry)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of confortar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of conforto
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 confortar 2. estado de quem é confortado 3. comodidade material 4. consolação
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 conforto
- confortos plural
- confôrto alternative
- comforto alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to conforto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is conforto in Portuguese?
conforto appears 13 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).