putrefacção

Portuguese, noun

putrefacção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of putrefação; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does putrefacção mean in English?

noun

1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of putrefação; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of putrefacção

putrefacções plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is putrefacção in Portuguese?

putrefacção appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.

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rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).