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grafema

Portuguese, noun/ɡɾaˈfẽ.mɐ/

grafema is spelled G-R-A-F-E-M-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 142,541st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grafema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “grapheme (fundamental unit of a writing system)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does grafema mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinegrapheme (fundamental unit of a writing system)

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

Forms of grafema

  • grafemas plural

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

How do you pronounce grafema?

  • Brazil /ɡɾaˈfẽ.mɐ/
  • Portugal /ɡɾɐˈfe.mɐ/

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

English words that translate to grafema

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

How common is grafema in Portuguese?

grafema appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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