ventriloquismo
Portuguese, noun/vẽ.tɾi.loˈkiz.mu/
ventriloquismo is spelled V-E-N-T-R-I-L-O-Q-U-I-S-M-O (14 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ventriloquismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ventriloquism (the art of projecting one’s voice so that it appears to come from another source)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arte dos ventríloquos”.
What does ventriloquismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineventriloquism (the art of projecting one’s voice so that it appears to come from another source)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arte dos ventríloquos
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 ventriloquismo
- ventriloquismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ventriloquismo?
- Brazil /vẽ.tɾi.loˈkiz.mu/
- /vẽ.tɾi.loˈkiʒ.mu/
- Portugal /vẽ.tɾi.luˈkiʒ.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 ventriloquismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ventriloquismo in Portuguese?
ventriloquismo appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).