surpreso
Portuguese, adjective
surpreso is spelled S-U-R-P-R-E-S-O (8 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surpreso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “surprised, astonished” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of surpreender. With an accent, surprêso is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se surpreendeu”.
What does surpreso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
surprised, astonished
verb
- 1
past participle of surpreender
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of surpresar
adjective
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of surpreso
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se surpreendeu
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 surpreso
- surpresa feminine
- surpresos masculine plural
- surpresas feminine plural
- surprêso alternative
- surprêsa feminine
- surprêsas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to surpreso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surpreso in Portuguese?
surpreso appears 8.9 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).