surto
Portuguese, noun/ˈsuʁ.tu/
surto is spelled S-U-R-T-O (5 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,158th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “surge; outbreak (sudden rush or increase of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of surtar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “variação repentina da corrente num circuito elétrico”.
What does surto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesurge; outbreak (sudden rush or increase of something)
- 2
masculinebreakdown (lapse of mental stability)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of surtar
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of surtir
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of sortir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. variação repentina da corrente num circuito elétrico 2. irrupção (de doença) 3. aumento significativo e rápido 4. ataque súbito; acesso
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 surto
- surtos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surto?
- Brazil /ˈsuʁ.tu/
- Brazil [ˈsuh.tu]
- /ˈsuɾ.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 surto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surto in Portuguese?
surto appears 7.4 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).