expectoração

Portuguese, noun

expectoração is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “expectoration (the act of expelling phlegm from the lungs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does expectoração mean in English?

noun

1
feminineexpectoration (the act of expelling phlegm from the lungs)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of expectoração

expectorações plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to expectoração

expectoration

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is expectoração in Portuguese?

expectoração appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.

expectoração0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).