fracção
Portuguese, noun
fracção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of fração; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide fração”.
What does fracção mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of fração; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vide fração
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 fracção
- fracções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fracção
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fracção in Portuguese?
fracção appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).