direcção
Portuguese, noun
direcção is spelled D-I-R-E-C-Ç-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Direcção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of direção; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide direção”.
What does direcção mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of direção; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide direção
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 direcção
- direcções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is direcção in Portuguese?
direcção appears 23 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).