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aquífero

Portuguese, noun

aquífero is spelled A-Q-U-Í-F-E-R-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aquífero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “aquifer (an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, aqüífero is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. With an accent, aqùífero is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of aquífero”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “formação ou grupo de formações geológicas que pode armazenar água subterrânea”.

What does aquífero mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineaquifer (an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel)

noun

as aqüífero
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of aquífero; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling

noun

as aqùífero
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of aquífero

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. formação ou grupo de formações geológicas que pode armazenar água subterrânea

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 aquífero

  • aquíferos plural
  • aqüífero alternative
  • aqùífero alternative
  • aqüíferos plural
  • aqùíferos plural

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

English words that translate to aquífero

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is aquífero in Portuguese?

aquífero appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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