questionamento
Portuguese, noun/kes.t͡ʃi.o.naˈmẽ.tu/
questionamento is spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N-A-M-E-N-T-O (14 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,397th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Questionamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “inquiry (the act of inquiring)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de discordar; discordância, controvérsia, discussão, interrogatório”.
What does questionamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinquiry (the act of inquiring)
- 2
masculineinterrogation (the act of interrogating or questioning someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de discordar; discordância, controvérsia, discussão, interrogatório
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 questionamento
- questionamentos plural
- qüestionamento alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce questionamento?
- Brazil /kes.t͡ʃi.o.naˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /kes.t͡ʃjo.naˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil /kwes.t͡ʃi.o.naˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to questionamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is questionamento in Portuguese?
questionamento appears 4.9 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).