pleonasmo
Portuguese, noun/ple.oˈnaz.mu/
pleonasmo is spelled P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pleonasmo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pleonasm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “figura de linguagem ou vício dela caracterizado pelo uso proposital ou não de palavras e desnecessárias para…”.
What does pleonasmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepleonasm
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. figura de linguagem ou vício dela caracterizado pelo uso proposital ou não de palavras e desnecessárias para expressar uma ideia já subentendida 2. expressão empregada de modo a causar um pleonasmo¹
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 pleonasmo
- pleonasmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pleonasmo?
- Brazil /ple.oˈnaz.mu/
- /ple.oˈnaʒ.mu/
- Brazil /ple.o.ˈnaz.mʊ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pleonasmo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pleonasmo in Portuguese?
pleonasmo appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).