engavetamento
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.ɡa.ve.taˈmẽ.tu/
engavetamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pile-up (traffic accident involving many vehicles hitting each other in succession)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “acidente veicular em que um ou mais de um automóvel na sequência de outro colide à traseira daquele à sua…”.
What does engavetamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepile-up (traffic accident involving many vehicles hitting each other in succession)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. acidente veicular em que um ou mais de um automóvel na sequência de outro colide à traseira daquele à sua frente
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 engavetamento
- engavetamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engavetamento?
- Brazil /ẽ.ɡa.ve.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /ĩ.ɡa.ve.taˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ẽ.ɡɐ.vɨ.tɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is engavetamento in Portuguese?
engavetamento appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).