ego
Portuguese, noun/ˈɛ.ɡu/
ego is spelled E-G-O (3 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ego is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ego (the self)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “a personalidade de cada pessoa”.
What does ego mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineego (the self)
- 2
masculineego (most central part of the mind)
prefix
- 1
ego-
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. a personalidade de cada pessoa 2. parte da mente que lida com a realidade, medeia entre os impulsos do id e as demandas da sociedade, buscando equilibrar os desejos instintivos com as exigências do mundo externo
prefix: 1. prefixo que exprime a ideia de eu 2. prefixo que exprime a ideia de cabra
suffix: 1. origem, procedência 2. relação 3. diminutivo
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 ego
- egos plural
- e.go- canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ego?
- Brazil /ˈɛ.ɡu/
- Portugal /ˈɛ.ɡu/
- Portugal [ˈɛ.ɣu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ego
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ego in Portuguese?
ego appears 11 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).