anáfase
Portuguese, noun
anáfase is spelled A-N-Á-F-A-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese, the 183,862nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anáfase is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “anaphase (stage of mitosis and meiosis during which the chromosomes separate)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, anafase is a different word: “alternative form of anáfase”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fase da mitose na qual as cromátides-irmãs são separadas e migradas para os polos opostos, e as fibras do…”.
What does anáfase mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanaphase (stage of mitosis and meiosis during which the chromosomes separate)
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of anáfase
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fase da mitose na qual as cromátides-irmãs são separadas e migradas para os polos opostos, e as fibras do fuso se encurtam
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 anáfase
- anafases plural
- anáfases plural
- anafase alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anáfase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anáfase in Portuguese?
anáfase appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).