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floculação

Portuguese, noun/flo.ku.laˈsɐ̃w̃/

floculação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “flocculation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “processo que ocorre em substâncias coloidais que formam flocos; tal processo é usado em tratamento de água”.

What does floculação mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineflocculation

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. processo que ocorre em substâncias coloidais que formam flocos; tal processo é usado em tratamento de água

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 floculação

  • floculações plural

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

How do you pronounce floculação?

  • Brazil /flo.ku.laˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [flo.ku.laˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • Portugal /flu.ku.lɐˈsɐ̃w̃/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to floculação

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

How common is floculação in Portuguese?

floculação appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.

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