fonação
Portuguese, noun/fo.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
fonação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “phonation (the process of producing speech sounds)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “trabalho muscular realizado para emitir sons inteligíveis, isto é, para que exista a comunicação oral”.
What does fonação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephonation (the process of producing speech sounds)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. trabalho muscular realizado para emitir sons inteligíveis, isto é, para que exista a comunicação oral
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 fonação
- fonações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fonação?
- Brazil /fo.naˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [fo.naˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /fu.nɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fonação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fonação in Portuguese?
fonação appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).