amálgama
Portuguese, noun
amálgama is spelled A-M-Á-L-G-A-M-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 35,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amálgama is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “amalgam (all senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, amalgama is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação genérica das ligas que contêm mercúrio”.
What does amálgama mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineamalgam (all senses)
- 2
femininemasculineamalgamation
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. designação genérica das ligas que contêm mercúrio 2. liga de outros metais entre si 3. liga de prata e mercúrio, cristalizada no sistema cúbico 4. material usado pelos dentistas para restaurar dentes
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 amálgama
- amálgamas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to amálgama
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amálgama in Portuguese?
amálgama appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).