improviso
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.pɾoˈvi.zu/
improviso is spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-I-S-O (9 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 20,222nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Improviso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “improvisation (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of improvisar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o que é dito ou feito na última hora ou sem a devida preparação; improvisação”.
What does improviso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimprovisation (act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, without prior preparation)
- 2
masculinemakeshift (a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of improvisar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. improvisado, repentino, súbito
noun: 1. o que é dito ou feito na última hora ou sem a devida preparação; improvisação
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 improviso
- improvisos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce improviso?
- Brazil /ĩ.pɾoˈvi.zu/
- Portugal /ĩ.pɾuˈvi.zu/
- Portugal /ĩ.pɾuˈbi.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to improviso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is improviso in Portuguese?
improviso appears 2.3 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).