combinatória
Portuguese, noun/kõ.bi.naˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/
combinatória is spelled C-O-M-B-I-N-A-T-Ó-R-I-A (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Combinatória is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “combinatorics (a branch of mathematics)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of combinatório. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ramo da matemática que estuda coleções finitas de elementos que satisfazem critérios específicos determinados…”.
What does combinatória mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecombinatorics (a branch of mathematics)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of combinatório
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ramo da matemática que estuda coleções finitas de elementos que satisfazem critérios específicos determinados e se preocupa, em particular, com a "contagem" de elementos nessas coleções (combinatória enumerativa), com decidir se certo objeto "ótimo" existe (combinatória extremal) e com estruturas "algébricas" que esses objetos possam ter (combinatória algébrica)
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 combinatória
- combinatórias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce combinatória?
- Brazil /kõ.bi.naˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/
- Portugal /kõ.bi.nɐˈtɔ.ɾjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to combinatória
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is combinatória in Portuguese?
combinatória appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).