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populismo

Portuguese, noun/po.puˈliz.mu/

populismo is spelled P-O-P-U-L-I-S-M-O (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Populismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “populism (doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estilo de fazer política, que consiste no uso de promessas demagogas, insuflações regionalistas, e atribuição…”.

What does populismo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepopulism (doctrine that appeals to the interests and conceptions of the general people)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. estilo de fazer política, que consiste no uso de promessas demagogas, insuflações regionalistas, e atribuição de rótulos aos adversários eleitorais, com vistas a criar um clima de messianismo e segregacionismo político, de modo a beneficiar o seu praticante

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 populismo

  • populismos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce populismo?

  • Brazil /po.puˈliz.mu/
  • /po.puˈliʒ.mu/
  • Portugal /pu.puˈliʒ.mu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to populismo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is populismo in Portuguese?

populismo appears 1.1 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).

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