enfrentamento
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.fɾẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
enfrentamento is spelled E-N-F-R-E-N-T-A-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfrentamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “confrontation (the act of facing an opponent or challenge)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de enfrentar”.
What does enfrentamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconfrontation (the act of facing an opponent or challenge)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação de enfrentar
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 enfrentamento
- enfrentamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfrentamento?
- Brazil /ẽ.fɾẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /ĩ.fɾẽ.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ẽ.fɾẽ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enfrentamento in Portuguese?
enfrentamento appears 3.9 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).