alocução
Portuguese, noun/a.lo.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
alocução is spelled A-L-O-C-U-Ç-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 112,486th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alocução is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “allocution (formal, authoritative speech)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “discurso, geralmente breve, pronunciado em ocasião solene”.
What does alocução mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineallocution (formal, authoritative speech)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. discurso, geralmente breve, pronunciado em ocasião solene
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 alocução
- alocuções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alocução?
- Brazil /a.lo.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.lo.kuˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /ɐ.lu.kuˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alocução
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alocução in Portuguese?
alocução appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).