ficologia
Portuguese, noun/fi.ko.loˈʒi.ɐ/
ficologia is spelled F-I-C-O-L-O-G-I-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written Portuguese, the 241,242nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ficologia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “phycology (study of algae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estudo ou tratado científico relativo as algas, sendo portanto uma ciência componente da biologia”.
What does ficologia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephycology (study of algae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estudo ou tratado científico relativo as algas, sendo portanto uma ciência componente da biologia
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.
How do you pronounce ficologia?
- Brazil /fi.ko.loˈʒi.ɐ/
- Portugal /fi.ku.luˈʒi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ficologia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ficologia in Portuguese?
ficologia appears about once in every 78 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).