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enredo

Portuguese, noun/ẽˈʁe.du/

enredo is spelled E-N-R-E-D-O (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enredo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plot (the course of a story)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of enredar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tecido semelhante ao da rede”.

What does enredo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineplot (the course of a story)

  2. 2

    masculinemess; confusion

  3. 3

    masculineintrigue

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of enredar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. tecido semelhante ao da rede 2. disposição complicada dos episódios de uma obra literária ou dramática 3. intriga 4. confusão

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 enredo

  • enredos plural
  • enrêdo alternative

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

How do you pronounce enredo?

  • Brazil /ẽˈʁe.du/
  • Brazil [ẽˈhe.du]
  • Brazil /ĩˈʁe.du/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to enredo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is enredo in Portuguese?

enredo appears 12 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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