acreção
Portuguese, noun/a.kɾeˈsɐ̃w̃/
acreção is spelled A-C-R-E-Ç-Ã-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 120,815th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acreção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “accretion (act of increasing or growing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato ou efeito de acretar, de acrescentar, de crescer”.
What does acreção mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaccretion (act of increasing or growing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o ato ou efeito de acretar, de acrescentar, de crescer
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 acreção
- acreções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acreção?
- Brazil /a.kɾeˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.kɾeˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ɐ.kɾɨˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acreção
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acreção in Portuguese?
acreção appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).