encefalocele
Portuguese, noun/ẽˌsɛ.fa.loˈsɛ.li/
encefalocele is spelled E-N-C-E-F-A-L-O-C-E-L-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encefalocele is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “encephalocele (hernia of the brain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does encefalocele mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineencephalocele (hernia of the brain)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encefalocele
- encefaloceles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encefalocele?
- Brazil /ẽˌsɛ.fa.loˈsɛ.li/
- Brazil /ĩˌsɛ.fa.loˈsɛ.li/
- Portugal /ẽˌsɛ.fɐ.lɔˈsɛ.lɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encefalocele
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encefalocele in Portuguese?
encefalocele appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).