personagem
Portuguese, noun/peʁ.soˈna.ʒẽj̃/
personagem is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-A-G-E-M (10 letters) and appears 65 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,494th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Personagem is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “character (being involved in the action of a story)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa ilustre, importante, notável”.
What does personagem mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinecharacter (being involved in the action of a story)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa ilustre, importante, notável 2. as figuras de uma apresentação teatral ou cinematográfica 3. as pessoas que figuram em um poema, acontecimento ou narração
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 personagem
- personagens plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce personagem?
- Brazil /peʁ.soˈna.ʒẽj̃/
- Brazil [peh.soˈna.ʒẽɪ̯̃]
- /peɾ.soˈna.ʒẽj̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to personagem
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is personagem in Portuguese?
personagem appears 65 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).