ismo
Portuguese, noun/ˈiz.mu/
ismo is spelled I-S-M-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 74,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ism (any ideology, system of thought or practice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does ismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineism (any ideology, system of thought or practice)
suffix
- 1
masculine-ism
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. sufixo que exprime a ideia de:
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 ismo
- ismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ismo?
- Brazil /ˈiz.mu/
- /ˈiʒ.mu/
- Portugal /ˈiʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ismo in Portuguese?
ismo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).