paradoxo
Portuguese, noun/pa.ɾaˈdɔk.su/
paradoxo is spelled P-A-R-A-D-O-X-O (8 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,840th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paradoxo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “paradox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “declaração ou proposição que se parece autocontradizer mas que na realidade expressa uma verdade possível”.
What does paradoxo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparadox
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. declaração ou proposição que se parece autocontradizer mas que na realidade expressa uma verdade possível 2. proposição falsa ou autocontraditória 3. opinião ou declaração contrária à opinião geralmente aceita 4. figura de pensamento que consiste na exposição contraditória de ideias (exemplos: "descer para cima", "entrar para fora", etc.)
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 paradoxo
- paradoxos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce paradoxo?
- Brazil /pa.ɾaˈdɔk.su/
- Portugal /pɐ.ɾɐˈdɔk.su/
- Portugal [pɐ.ɾɐˈðɔk.su]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to paradoxo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is paradoxo in Portuguese?
paradoxo appears 4.7 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).