esforço
Portuguese, noun
esforço is spelled E-S-F-O-R-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,924th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esforço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “effort (the amount of work involved in achieving something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of esforçar. With an accent, esfôrço is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o fato de exercer seus poderes físicos ou mentais”.
What does esforço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineeffort (the amount of work involved in achieving something)
- 2
masculinestress (as in stress test, such as a financial stress test)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of esforçar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of esforço
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o fato de exercer seus poderes físicos ou mentais 2. uma tentativa séria e honesta de fazer algo 3. a quantidade de trabalho necessária para obter um resultado
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 esforço
- esforços plural
- metaphonic plural
- esfôrço alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to esforço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is esforço in Portuguese?
esforço appears 49 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).