credência
Portuguese, noun
credência is spelled C-R-E-D-Ê-N-C-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 87,166th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Credência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “credence table (side table for items used in the Eucharist)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, credencia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”.
What does credência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecredence table (side table for items used in the Eucharist)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of credência
- credências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is credência in Portuguese?
credência appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).