inferência
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.feˈɾẽ.sjɐ/
inferência is spelled I-N-F-E-R-Ê-N-C-I-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inferência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “inference (act or effect of deducing through reasoning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dedução de uma informação a partir de outra”.
What does inferência mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinference (act or effect of deducing through reasoning)
- 2
feminineconclusion, deduction, inference (that which is deduced from something else)
- 3
femininededuction (transition from one or more propositions, considered as true or false, to the truth or falsity of those on which they depend)
- 4
femininegeneralization (probabilistic statement about a given population, made based on the analysis of data relating only to a representative part of that same population)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dedução de uma informação a partir de outra
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 inferência
- inferências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inferência?
- Brazil /ĩ.feˈɾẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ĩ.fɨˈɾẽ.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ĩˈfɾẽ.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 inferência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inferência in Portuguese?
inferência 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).