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talento

Portuguese, noun/taˈlẽ.tu/

talento is spelled T-A-L-E-N-T-O (7 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,874th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Talento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “talent (Classical unit of weight and money)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “engenho; uma habilidade especial de fazer algo”.

What does talento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetalent (Classical unit of weight and money)

  2. 2

    masculinetalent (marked natural ability or skill)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. engenho; uma habilidade especial de fazer algo 2. uma pessoa com talento¹ 3. antiga unidade de massa 4. antiga moeda originária da Mesopotâmia que também foi usada em diversas regiões do mundo antigo

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 talento

  • talentos plural

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

How do you pronounce talento?

  • Brazil /taˈlẽ.tu/
  • Portugal /tɐˈlẽ.tu/
  • Portugal /tɐ.ˈlẽ.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 talento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is talento in Portuguese?

talento appears 31 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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