tropeço
Portuguese, noun
tropeço is spelled T-R-O-P-E-Ç-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,491st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tropeço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “A stumble, trip, or substantial misstep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of tropeçar. With an accent, tropêço is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de tropeçar, bater ao caminhar com os pés em algum obstáculo”.
What does tropeço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineA stumble, trip, or substantial misstep.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of tropeçar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of tropeço
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de tropeçar, bater ao caminhar com os pés em algum obstáculo 2. obstáculo, impedimento
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 tropeço
- tropeços plural
- tropêço alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tropeço
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tropeço in Portuguese?
tropeço appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).