malacologia
Portuguese, noun/ma.la.ko.loˈʒi.ɐ/
malacologia is spelled M-A-L-A-C-O-L-O-G-I-A (11 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese, the 181,777th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malacologia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “malacology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estudo dos moluscos”.
What does malacologia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemalacology
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estudo dos moluscos 2. tratado sobre moluscos
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 malacologia
- malacologias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malacologia?
- Brazil /ma.la.ko.loˈʒi.ɐ/
- Portugal /mɐ.lɐ.ku.luˈʒi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malacologia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malacologia in Portuguese?
malacologia appears about once in every 41 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).