permutação
Portuguese, noun/peʁ.mu.taˈsɐ̃w̃/
permutação is spelled P-E-R-M-U-T-A-Ç-Ã-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Permutação is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “permutation (one-to-one mapping)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de permutar; substituição, troca”.
What does permutação mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepermutation (one-to-one mapping)
- 2
femininepermutation (ordering of a finite set of distinct elements)
- 3
femininethe act of permuting
- 4
femininean exchange (act of trading, exchanging or swapping)
- 5
femininemetathesis (transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word)
- 6
feminineexchange of genetic material during meiosis
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 permutar; substituição, troca 2. permuta 3. cada agrupamento que se pode formar pela troca de seus elementos, de forma que cada agrupamento se diferencie pela ordem de seus elementos 4. compra e venda; troca de mercadorias
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 permutação
- permutações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce permutação?
- Brazil /peʁ.mu.taˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [peɦ.mu.taˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /peɾ.mu.taˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to permutação
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is permutação in Portuguese?
permutação appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).