tesão
Portuguese, noun/teˈzɐ̃w̃/
tesão is spelled T-E-S-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,127th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tesão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “toughness, hardness, stiffness, rigidness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “rijeza”.
What does tesão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetoughness, hardness, stiffness, rigidness
noun
- 1
femininemasculinehard-on
- 2
femininemasculinevulgarrandiness, arousal
estar com tesão
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. rijeza 2. tesura 3. força; impetuosidade; perseverança 4. ereção do pênis
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 tesão
- tesões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tesão?
- Brazil /teˈzɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [teˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /tɨˈzɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tesão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tesão in Portuguese?
tesão appears 10 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).