despautério
Portuguese, noun/des.pawˈtɛ.ɾju/
despautério is spelled D-E-S-P-A-U-T-É-R-I-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese, the 180,215th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despautério is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nonsense, stupidity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “disparate, asneira, despropósito, absurdo”.
What does despautério mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenonsense, stupidity
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. disparate, asneira, despropósito, absurdo
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 despautério
- despautérios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despautério?
- Brazil /des.pawˈtɛ.ɾju/
- Brazil [des.paʊ̯ˈtɛ.ɾju]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.pawˈtɛ.ɾju/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is despautério in Portuguese?
despautério appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).