ingênuo
Portuguese, adjective
ingênuo is spelled I-N-G-Ê-N-U-O (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ingênuo is a Portuguese adjective meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of ingénuo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ingénuo is a different word: “ingenuous”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inocente”.
What does ingênuo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of ingénuo
adjective
- 1
ingenuous
- 2
naive
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. inocente 2. puro 3. bobo 4. pateta
adjective: 1. o mesmo que ingênuo
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 ingênuo
- ingênua feminine
- ingênuos masculine plural
- ingênuas feminine plural
- ingénua feminine
- ingénuos masculine plural
- ingénuas feminine plural
- ingênuo alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ingênuo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ingênuo in Portuguese?
ingênuo appears 2.0 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).