ineficiência
Portuguese, noun/i.ne.fi.siˈẽ.sjɐ/
ineficiência is spelled I-N-E-F-I-C-I-Ê-N-C-I-A (12 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,465th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ineficiência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “inefficiency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “falta de eficiência”.
What does ineficiência mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinefficiency
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. falta de eficiência
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 ineficiência
- ineficiências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ineficiência?
- Brazil /i.ne.fi.siˈẽ.sjɐ/
- Brazil /i.ne.fiˈsjẽ.sjɐ/
- Brazil /i.ni.fi.siˈẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ineficiência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ineficiência in Portuguese?
ineficiência appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).