divagação
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒi.va.ɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/
divagação is spelled D-I-V-A-G-A-Ç-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 127,225th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Divagação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “digression” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de divagar”.
What does divagação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedigression
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de divagar
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 divagação
- divagações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce divagação?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.va.ɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.va.ɡaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /di.vɐ.ɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is divagação in Portuguese?
divagação appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).