empiema
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.piˈẽ.mɐ/
empiema is spelled E-M-P-I-E-M-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese, the 251,849th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empiema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “empyema (accumulation of pus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does empiema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineempyema (accumulation of pus)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of empiema
- empiemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empiema?
- Brazil /ẽ.piˈẽ.mɐ/
- Brazil /ẽˈpjẽ.mɐ/
- Brazil /ĩ.piˈẽ.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empiema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empiema in Portuguese?
empiema appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).