intelligencia
Portuguese, noun
intelligencia is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-C-I-A (13 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese, the 207,250th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intelligencia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of inteligência” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does intelligencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of inteligência
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of intelligencia
- intelligencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is intelligencia in Portuguese?
intelligencia appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).