escuridão
Portuguese, noun/is.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/
escuridão is spelled E-S-C-U-R-I-D-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,127th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escuridão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “darkness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade de escuro (melânio)”.
What does escuridão mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedarkness
- 2
femininegloom
- 3
feminineobscurity
- 4
femininenight
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade de escuro (melânio) 2. ausência de luz 3. breu
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 escuridão
- escuridões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escuridão?
- Brazil /is.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [is.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /es.ku.ɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escuridão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escuridão in Portuguese?
escuridão appears 10 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).