aliteração
Portuguese, noun/a.li.te.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/
aliteração is spelled A-L-I-T-E-R-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 94,578th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aliteração is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alliteration” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “figura de linguagem que consiste em repetir fonemas num verso ou numa frase, especialmente as sílabas tônicas”.
What does aliteração mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealliteration
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. figura de linguagem que consiste em repetir fonemas num verso ou numa frase, especialmente as sílabas tônicas
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 aliteração
- aliterações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aliteração?
- Brazil /a.li.te.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.li.te.ɾaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ɐ.li.tɨ.ɾɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aliteração
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aliteração in Portuguese?
aliteração appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).