destroço
Portuguese, noun
destroço is spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Ç-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Destroço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “destruction, devastation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of destroçar. Without its cedilla, destroco is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of destrocar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estado de ruína; devastação”.
What does destroço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedestruction, devastation
- 2
masculinehavoc
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of destroçar
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of destrocar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado de ruína; devastação 2. ato ou efeito de destroçar; desbaratamento, derrota, destruição 3. o que sobrou desse ato (mais usado no plural) 4. colheita da colmeia
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 destroço
- destroços plural
- metaphonic plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to destroço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is destroço in Portuguese?
destroço appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).