metanoia
Portuguese, noun/me.taˈnɔj.ɐ/
metanoia is spelled M-E-T-A-N-O-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 112,486th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Metanoia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “metanoia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does metanoia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemetanoia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of metanoia
- metanoias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce metanoia?
- Brazil /me.taˈnɔj.ɐ/
- Brazil [me.taˈnɔɪ̯.ɐ]
- Portugal /mɨ.tɐˈnɔj.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is metanoia in Portuguese?
metanoia appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).