insinuação
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.si.nu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
insinuação is spelled I-N-S-I-N-U-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 51,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Insinuação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “insinuation (a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de insinuar”.
What does insinuação mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinsinuation (a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de insinuar
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 insinuação
- insinuações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce insinuação?
- Brazil /ĩ.si.nu.aˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [ĩ.si.nu.aˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /ĩ.si.nwaˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to insinuação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is insinuação in Portuguese?
insinuação 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).