enganação
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.ɡa.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
enganação is spelled E-N-G-A-N-A-Ç-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 38,177th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enganação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “deception (instance of misleading, deceiving)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação ou resultado de enganar, iludir, ludibriar”.
What does enganação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedeception (instance of misleading, deceiving)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação ou resultado de enganar, iludir, ludibriar
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 enganação
- enganações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enganação?
- Brazil /ẽ.ɡa.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ẽ.ɡa.naˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /ĩ.ɡa.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enganação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enganação in Portuguese?
enganação appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).