acentuação
Portuguese, noun/a.sẽ.tu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
acentuação is spelled A-C-E-N-T-U-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acentuação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “the placement of a diacritical mark on a letter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de acentuar”.
What does acentuação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe placement of a diacritical mark on a letter
- 2
feminineaccentuation (the act or process of accentuating)
- 3
feminineaccentuation (pitch or modulation of the voice)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de acentuar 2. modo de acentuar, pronúncia ou na escrita
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 acentuação
- acentuações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acentuação?
- Brazil /a.sẽ.tu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.sẽ.tu.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /a.sẽ.twaˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acentuação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acentuação in Portuguese?
acentuação appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).