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magnetismo

Portuguese, noun/ma.ɡi.neˈt͡ʃiz.mu/

magnetismo is spelled M-A-G-N-E-T-I-S-M-O (10 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,665th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Magnetismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “magnetism (property of being magnetic)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “propriedades dos campos e substâncias magnéticas”.

What does magnetismo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemagnetism (property of being magnetic)

  2. 2

    masculinemagnetism (power of attraction; power to excite feelings and to gain affections)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. propriedades dos campos e substâncias magnéticas 2. interação que cargas elétricas em movimento experimentam exclusivamente em virtude do movimento de ambas no referencial adotado 3. um dos efeitos produzidos pela corrente elétrica 4. área da Física que estuda essas propriedades magnéticas

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.

How do you pronounce magnetismo?

  • Brazil /ma.ɡi.neˈt͡ʃiz.mu/
  • Brazil /maɡ.neˈt͡ʃiz.mu/
  • /ma.ɡi.neˈt͡ʃiʒ.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 magnetismo

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

How common is magnetismo in Portuguese?

magnetismo appears 1.5 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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