lusofonia
Portuguese, noun/lu.zo.foˈni.ɐ/
lusofonia is spelled L-U-S-O-F-O-N-I-A (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lusofonia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Lusosphere; Lusophony (places where Portuguese is spoken, taken as a whole)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conjunto dos falantes do português como língua materna ou não”.
What does lusofonia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineLusosphere; Lusophony (places where Portuguese is spoken, taken as a whole)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. conjunto dos falantes do português como língua materna ou não 2. conjunto dos locais em que se fala a língua portuguesa como língua oficial e/ou materna (a saber: os países Brasil, Moçambique, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, as regiões administrativas especiais de Macau e Goa, e também a variedade de Timor na Oceania)
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 lusofonia
- lusofonias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lusofonia?
- Brazil /lu.zo.foˈni.ɐ/
- Portugal /lu.zu.fuˈni.ɐ/
- Portugal /lu.zɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lusofonia in Portuguese?
lusofonia appears 1.1 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).