confronto
Portuguese, noun/kõˈfɾõ.tu/
confronto is spelled C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T-O (9 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,671st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confronto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “confrontation (a hostile meeting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of confrontar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enfrentamento”.
What does confronto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconfrontation (a hostile meeting)
- 2
masculineconfrontation (a conflict between armed forces)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of confrontar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. enfrentamento; 2. comparação.
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 confronto
- confrontos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confronto?
- Brazil /kõˈfɾõ.tu/
- Portugal /kõˈfɾõ.tu/
- Portugal /kõ.ˈfɾõ.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 confronto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confronto in Portuguese?
confronto appears 23 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).