enfraquecimento
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.fɾa.ke.siˈmẽ.tu/
enfraquecimento is spelled E-N-F-R-A-Q-U-E-C-I-M-E-N-T-O (15 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,106th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfraquecimento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “weakening (the process of becoming or making weaker)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “debilidade”.
What does enfraquecimento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineweakening (the process of becoming or making weaker)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. debilidade 2. fraqueza
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 enfraquecimento
- enfraquecimentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfraquecimento?
- Brazil /ẽ.fɾa.ke.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /ĩ.fɾa.ke.siˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ẽ.fɾɐ.kɨ.siˈmẽ.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 enfraquecimento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfraquecimento in Portuguese?
enfraquecimento appears 2.2 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).