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ENEM

Portuguese, noun

ENEM is spelled E-N-E-M (4 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). ENEM is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of Enem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Enem is a different word: “An edition of this exam”.

What does ENEM mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative letter-case form of Enem

noun

as Enem
  1. 1

    BrazilmasculineAn edition of this exam.

  2. 2

    BrazilmasculineAny national admission exam.

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. sigla de Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio

abbreviation: 1. Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio

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 ENEM

  • ENEMs plural
  • Enems plural
  • ENEM alternative

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

How common is ENEM in Portuguese?

ENEM appears 8.7 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).

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