docência
Portuguese, noun/doˈsẽ.sjɐ/
docência is spelled D-O-C-Ê-N-C-I-A (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Docência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “faculty (scholarly staff at colleges or universities)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “campo de atuação profissional que envolve o ato de educar ou ensinar”.
What does docência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefaculty (scholarly staff at colleges or universities)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. campo de atuação profissional que envolve o ato de educar ou ensinar 2. qualidade de quem é docente
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 docência
- docências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce docência?
- Brazil /doˈsẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /duˈsẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is docência in Portuguese?
docência appears 1.1 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).