equívoco
Portuguese, noun
equívoco is spelled E-Q-U-Í-V-O-C-O (8 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 18,535th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Equívoco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “mistake; error” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, equivoco is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of equivocar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “engano por má interpretação; erro”.
What does equívoco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ambiguous; equivocal
- 2
erroneous
noun
- 1
masculinemistake; error
- 2
masculinepun
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of equivocar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem duplo sentido ou várias interpretações 2. suspeito, duvidoso
noun: 1. engano por má interpretação; erro 2. trocadilho, jogo de palavras
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 equívoco
- equívoca feminine
- equívocos masculine plural
- equívocas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to equívoco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is equívoco in Portuguese?
equívoco appears 2.7 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).