sorteio
Portuguese, noun/soʁˈtej.u/
sorteio is spelled S-O-R-T-E-I-O (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,707th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sorteio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “draw (procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sortear. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “método de distribuição de algo indivisível entre vários, dos que um só será agraciado, baseado em fórmulas de…”.
What does sorteio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedraw (procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined)
- 2
masculinedrawing (action where the outcome is selected by chance using a draw)
- 3
masculinegiveaway
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sortear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. método de distribuição de algo indivisível entre vários, dos que um só será agraciado, baseado em fórmulas de casualidade, de acaso; ato de rifar (sortear)
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 sorteio
- sorteios plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sorteio?
- Brazil /soʁˈtej.u/
- Brazil [sohˈteɪ̯.u]
- /soɾˈtej.u/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sorteio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sorteio in Portuguese?
sorteio appears 17 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).