desserviço
Portuguese, noun/de.seʁˈvi.su/
desserviço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “disservice (an act that does more harm than good)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does desserviço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedisservice (an act that does more harm than good)
Os artigos desse cara são um desserviço à humanidade.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of desserviço
- desserviços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desserviço?
- Brazil /de.seʁˈvi.su/
- Brazil [de.seɦˈvi.su]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.seʁˈvi.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desserviço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desserviço in Portuguese?
desserviço appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).