contrapeso
Portuguese, noun
contrapeso is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-P-E-S-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrapeso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “counterweight (weight used to balance a load)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of contrapesar.
What does contrapeso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecounterweight (weight used to balance a load)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of contrapesar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of contrapeso
- contrapesos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to contrapeso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrapeso in Portuguese?
contrapeso appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).