contágio
Portuguese, noun
contágio is spelled C-O-N-T-Á-G-I-O (8 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,255th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contágio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “contagion (transmission of a contagious disease)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, contagio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of contagiar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transmissão ou propagação de doença por contato direto ou indireto”.
What does contágio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontagion (transmission of a contagious disease)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of contagiar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. transmissão ou propagação de doença por contato direto ou indireto
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 contágio
- contágios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to contágio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contágio in Portuguese?
contágio appears 1.7 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).