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anencéfalo

Portuguese, noun/a.nẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/

anencéfalo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “anencephalic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does anencéfalo mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    anencephalic

noun

  1. 1

    masculineanencephalic

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

Forms of anencéfalo

  • anencéfala feminine
  • anencéfalos masculine plural
  • anencéfalas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce anencéfalo?

  • Brazil /a.nẽˈsɛ.fa.lu/
  • Portugal /ɐ.nẽˈsɛ.fɐ.lu/

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

How common is anencéfalo in Portuguese?

anencéfalo appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.

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