aerofagia

Portuguese, noun/aˌɛ.ɾo.faˈʒi.ɐ/

aerofagia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “aerophagy (the swallowing of air)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does aerofagia mean in English?

noun

1
feminineaerophagy (the swallowing of air)

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

How do you pronounce aerofagia?

Brazil /aˌɛ.ɾo.faˈʒi.ɐ/
Portugal /ɐˌɛ.ɾɔ.fɐˈʒi.ɐ/

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

How common is aerofagia in Portuguese?

aerofagia appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.

aerofagia0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

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