quadrícula
Portuguese, noun
quadrícula is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-Í-C-U-L-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 132,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quadrícula is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “small square” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, quadricula is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “feminino de quadrículo”.
What does quadrícula mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesmall square
- 2
femininegrid (rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. feminino de quadrículo 2. quadradinho; pequeno quadrado ou retângulo 3. pequena quadra 4. (ecologia) área de território quadrada relativamente grande (usualmente 10 × 10 km), usada como unidade territorial para contagem e avaliação das populações de espécies animais ou vegetais
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 quadrícula
- quadrículas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is quadrícula in Portuguese?
quadrícula appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).