esquisitão
Portuguese, noun/is.ki.ziˈtɐ̃w̃/
esquisitão is spelled E-S-Q-U-I-S-I-T-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 89,875th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esquisitão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “weirdo (strange person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of esquisito. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa de atitudes e comportamentos excêntricos, pouco comunicativa e alheia às convenções sociais”.
What does esquisitão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineweirdo (strange person)
adjective
- 1
augmentative of esquisito
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se de pessoa de atitudes e comportamentos excêntricos, pouco comunicativa e alheia às convenções sociais
noun: 1. pessoa de atitudes e comportamentos excêntricos, pouco comunicativa e alheia às convenções sociais
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 esquisitão
- esquisitões plural
- esquisitona feminine
- esquisitonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esquisitão?
- Brazil /is.ki.ziˈtɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [is.ki.ziˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /es.ki.ziˈtɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esquisitão in Portuguese?
esquisitão appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).