exagero
Portuguese, noun
exagero is spelled E-X-A-G-E-R-O (7 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,736th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exagero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “exaggeration (the act of exaggerating)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of exagerar. With an accent, exagêro is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “excesso, abuso”.
What does exagero mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexaggeration (the act of exaggerating)
- 2
masculineexaggeration (an exaggerated representation)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of exagerar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of exagero
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. excesso, abuso
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 exagero
- exageros plural
- exagêro alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to exagero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exagero in Portuguese?
exagero appears 7.9 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).