desespero
Portuguese, noun
desespero is spelled D-E-S-E-S-P-E-R-O (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desespero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “despair (loss of hope)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desesperar. With an accent, desespêro is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aflição”.
What does desespero mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedespair (loss of hope)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desesperar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of desespero
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aflição 2. desesperação
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 desespero
- desesperos plural
- desespêro alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desespero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desespero in Portuguese?
desespero appears 18 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).