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interesse

Portuguese, noun

interesse is spelled I-N-T-E-R-E-S-S-E (9 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interesse is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “interest, curiosity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of interessar. With an accent, interêsse is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “participação de uma pessoa em algum evento ou assunto”.

What does interesse mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineinterest, curiosity

    Tenho um interesse em música.

  2. 2

    masculineself-interest, especially when pretending to like someone to attain some benefit for oneself

    Ela só está consigo por interesse, pois você é rico.

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

noun

as interêsse
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of interesse

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. participação de uma pessoa em algum evento ou assunto 2. cobiça 3. zelo, preocupação 4. curiosidade

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 interesse

  • interesses plural
  • interêsse alternative
  • interêsses plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to interesse

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is interesse in Portuguese?

interesse appears 120 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).

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