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disrupção

Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒiz.ʁupˈsɐ̃w̃/

disrupção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “disruption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de romper, de interromper o curso natural de”.

What does disrupção mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedisruption

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ato de romper, de interromper o curso natural de 2. ruptura, rompimento, fratura 3. restabelecimento súbito de uma corrente elétrica 4. tensão súbita de um estreitamento

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 disrupção

  • disrupções plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce disrupção?

  • Brazil /d͡ʒiz.ʁupˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [d͡ʒiz.hupˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • Brazil /d͡ʒiz.ʁu.piˈsɐ̃w̃/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to disrupção

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is disrupção in Portuguese?

disrupção appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).