denúncia
Portuguese, noun
denúncia is spelled D-E-N-Ú-N-C-I-A (8 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Denúncia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “denunciation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, denuncia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de denunciar: revelação intencional de crime, ou de qualquer comportamento errado”.
What does denúncia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedenunciation
- 2
femininecriminal charge
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
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de denunciar: revelação intencional de crime, ou de qualquer comportamento errado
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 denúncia
- denúncias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to denúncia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is denúncia in Portuguese?
denúncia appears 21 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).