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vaginismo

Portuguese, noun/va.ʒiˈniz.mu/

vaginismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “vaginismus (painful muscular contraction of the vagina)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “espasmo vaginal doloroso”.

What does vaginismo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinevaginismus (painful muscular contraction of the vagina)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. espasmo vaginal doloroso

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 vaginismo

  • vaginismos plural

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

How do you pronounce vaginismo?

  • Brazil /va.ʒiˈniz.mu/
  • /va.ʒiˈniʒ.mu/
  • Portugal /vɐ.ʒiˈniʒ.mu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vaginismo

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

How common is vaginismo in Portuguese?

vaginismo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).