negócio
Portuguese, noun
negócio is spelled N-E-G-Ó-C-I-O (7 letters) and appears 102 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 957th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Negócio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “affair (that which is done or is to be done)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, negocio is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of negociar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “comércio”.
What does negócio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaffair (that which is done or is to be done)
- 2
masculinebusiness, enterprise
- 3
Brazilmasculinething, stuff
- 4
Brazilmasculineslangpenis
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of negociar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. comércio 2. empresa 3. coisa, troço
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 negócio
- negócios plural
- negocio alternative obsolete
- negoço alternative pronunciation-spelling
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to negócio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is negócio in Portuguese?
negócio appears 102 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).