tormento
Portuguese, noun/toʁˈmẽ.tu/
tormento is spelled T-O-R-M-E-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,005th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tormento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “torment (extreme physical or psychological pain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tormentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grande dor, sofrimento, preocupação”.
What does tormento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetorment (extreme physical or psychological pain)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tormentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grande dor, sofrimento, preocupação 2. algo que causa grande dor, sofrimento ou preocupação
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 tormento
- tormentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tormento?
- Brazil /toʁˈmẽ.tu/
- Brazil [toɦˈmẽ.tu]
- /toɾˈmẽ.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 tormento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tormento in Portuguese?
tormento appears 1.4 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).