performance
Portuguese, noun
performance is spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E (11 letters) and appears 27 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,261st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Performance is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “acting performance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, perfórmance is a different word: “alternative spelling of performance”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver perfórmance”.
What does performance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineacting performance
- 2
femininerealization
- 3
femininefeat
- 4
feminineperformance (artistic manifestation based on staging that can combine dance, music, audiovisual media)
- 5
feminineperformance (manifestation of a speaker's linguistic competence)
noun
- 1
femininealternative spelling of performance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver perfórmance
noun: 1. desempenho 2. show 3. apresentação
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 performance
- performances plural
- perfórmance alternative uncommon
- perfórmances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to performance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is performance in Portuguese?
performance appears 27 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).