empalamento
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.pa.laˈmẽ.tu/
empalamento is spelled E-M-P-A-L-A-M-E-N-T-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese, the 150,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empalamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “impaling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “método de tortura e execução que consistia na inserção de uma estaca pelo ânus, vagina, ou umbigo até a morte…”.
What does empalamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimpaling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. método de tortura e execução que consistia na inserção de uma estaca pelo ânus, vagina, ou umbigo até a morte do torturado
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 empalamento
- empalamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empalamento?
- Brazil /ẽ.pa.laˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /ĩ.pa.laˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ẽ.pɐ.lɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empalamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empalamento in Portuguese?
empalamento appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).