delícia
Portuguese, noun
delícia is spelled D-E-L-Í-C-I-A (7 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,307th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delícia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “delight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, delicia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que deleite”.
What does delícia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedelight
- 2
femininedelectation
- 3
femininecharm
- 4
femininevoluptuousness
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).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. expressa que se está tendo deleite
noun: 1. o mesmo que deleite 2. encanto 3. volúpia 4. aquilo que causa deleite
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 delícia
- delícias plural
- dlc alternative Internet
- dlç alternative Internet
- delicia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is delícia in Portuguese?
delícia appears 8.5 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).