divergência
Portuguese, noun
divergência is spelled D-I-V-E-R-G-Ê-N-C-I-A (11 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,223rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Divergência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “the act or result of diverging” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, divergencia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “discordância”.
What does divergência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe act or result of diverging
- 2
femininedivergence (the degree to which things diverge)
- 3
femininedisagreement (the condition of not agreeing or concurring)
- 4
femininealternative form of divergente
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of divergência
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. discordância 2. afastamento 3. separação 4. discrepância
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 divergência
- divergências plural
- divergencia alternative
- divergencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to divergência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is divergência in Portuguese?
divergência appears 3.0 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).