estridência
Portuguese, noun/is.tɾiˈdẽ.sjɐ/
estridência is spelled E-S-T-R-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese, the 201,356th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estridência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “stridency, shrillness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade do que é estridente, conjunto de sons agudos e penetrantes”.
What does estridência mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestridency, shrillness
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade do que é estridente, conjunto de sons agudos e penetrantes
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 estridência
- estridências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estridência?
- Brazil /is.tɾiˈdẽ.sjɐ/
- Brazil /es.tɾiˈdẽ.sjɐ/
- /iʃ.tɾiˈdẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is estridência in Portuguese?
estridência appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).