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protagonismo

Portuguese, noun/pɾo.ta.ɡoˈniz.mu/

protagonismo is spelled P-R-O-T-A-G-O-N-I-S-M-O (12 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,997th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protagonismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “prominence, relevancy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de ser protagonista (de uma história, por exemplo)”.

What does protagonismo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineprominence, relevancy

  2. 2

    masculineprotagonism

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. o ato de ser protagonista (de uma história, por exemplo)

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 protagonismo

  • protagonismos plural

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

How do you pronounce protagonismo?

  • Brazil /pɾo.ta.ɡoˈniz.mu/
  • /pɾo.ta.ɡoˈniʒ.mu/

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

How common is protagonismo in Portuguese?

protagonismo appears 2.8 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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