frenologia
Portuguese, noun/fɾe.no.loˈʒi.ɐ/
frenologia is spelled F-R-E-N-O-L-O-G-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frenologia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “phrenology (the discredited science that studies the relationships between a person’s character and the morphology of the skull)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “doutrina segundo a qual cada faculdade mental se localiza em uma parte do córtex cerebral e o tamanho de cada…”.
What does frenologia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephrenology (the discredited science that studies the relationships between a person’s character and the morphology of the skull)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. doutrina segundo a qual cada faculdade mental se localiza em uma parte do córtex cerebral e o tamanho de cada parte é diretamente proporcional ao desenvolvimento da faculdade correspondente, sendo este tamanho indicado pela configuração externa do crânio; frenologismo
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 frenologia?
- Brazil /fɾe.no.loˈʒi.ɐ/
- Portugal /fɾɨ.nu.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 frenologia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frenologia in Portuguese?
frenologia appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).