incentivo
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.sẽˈt͡ʃi.vu/
incentivo is spelled I-N-C-E-N-T-I-V-O (9 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,280th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Incentivo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “incentive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of incentivar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquilo que incentiva, estimula, anima”.
What does incentivo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineincentive
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of incentivar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquilo que incentiva, estimula, anima
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 incentivo
- incentivos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce incentivo?
- Brazil /ĩ.sẽˈt͡ʃi.vu/
- Portugal /ĩ.sẽˈti.vu/
- Portugal /ĩ.sẽˈti.bu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to incentivo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is incentivo in Portuguese?
incentivo appears 12 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).