intento
Portuguese, noun/ĩˈtẽ.tu/
intento is spelled I-N-T-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “intent, intention” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of intentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “algo que se pretende pôr em ação; objetivo; intenção; desígnio”.
What does intento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineintent, intention
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of intentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. algo que se pretende pôr em ação; objetivo; intenção; desígnio
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 intento
- intentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce intento?
- Brazil /ĩˈtẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ĩˈtẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to intento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is intento in Portuguese?
intento appears 1.2 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).