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área

Portuguese, noun

área is spelled Á-R-E-A (4 letters) and appears 316 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 286th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Área is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “area; region; place (a geographical location)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, area is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “medida de uma superfície”.

What does área mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininearea; region; place (a geographical location)

    A igreja fica naquela área.

  2. 2

    femininearea; region; place (an extent of surface)

    Ele tem espinhas nessa área do rosto.

  3. 3

    femininearea; field (related things and concepts)

    Minha mãe trabalha na área da educação.

  4. 4

    femininearea (measure of two-dimensional extent)

    Calcule a área do triângulo.

  5. 5

    femininearea; penalty area (square in front of the goal)

  6. 6

    femininecourt (open, enclosed space in a building or compound)

noun

as area
  1. 1

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of área

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. medida de uma superfície 2. espaço plano delimitado 3. superfície de uma figura geométrica 4. medida de extensão de um terreno

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 área

  • areas plural
  • áreas plural
  • area alternative

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

English words that translate to área

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

How common is área in Portuguese?

área appears 316 times per 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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