prostituição
Portuguese, noun/pɾos.t͡ʃi.tu.iˈsɐ̃w̃/
prostituição is spelled P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-I-Ç-Ã-O (12 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 10,139th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prostituição is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “prostitution” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de prostituir (fazer sexo com alguém em troca de dinheiro)”.
What does prostituição mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprostitution
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de prostituir (fazer sexo com alguém em troca de dinheiro)
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 prostituição
- prostituições plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prostituição?
- Brazil /pɾos.t͡ʃi.tu.iˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [pɾos.t͡ʃi.tu.iˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /pɾos.t͡ʃi.tujˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prostituição
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prostituição in Portuguese?
prostituição appears 6.5 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).