adjacência
Portuguese, noun/ad͡ʒ.ʒaˈsẽ.sjɐ/
adjacência is spelled A-D-J-A-C-Ê-N-C-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adjacência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “adjacency (the quality of being adjacent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade do que é adjacente”.
What does adjacência mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadjacency (the quality of being adjacent)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade do que é adjacente 2. contiguidade
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 adjacência
- adjacências plural
- ad.ja.cên.ci.a canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adjacência?
- Brazil /ad͡ʒ.ʒaˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- Brazil /a.d͡ʒi.ʒaˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ɐd.ʒɐˈsẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adjacência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adjacência in Portuguese?
adjacência appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).