infância
Portuguese, noun
infância is spelled I-N-F-Â-N-C-I-A (8 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,924th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Infância is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “infancy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, infancia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “período do desenvolvimento do ser humano, que vai do nascimento ao início da adolescência; meninice, puerícia”.
What does infância mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinfancy
- 2
femininechildhood
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of infância
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. período do desenvolvimento do ser humano, que vai do nascimento ao início da adolescência; meninice, puerícia
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 infância
- infancias plural
- infâncias plural
- infancia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to infância
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is infância in Portuguese?
infância appears 49 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).