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recenseamento

Portuguese, noun/ʁe.sẽ.se.aˈmẽ.tu/

recenseamento is spelled R-E-C-E-N-S-E-A-M-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recenseamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “census (official count of members of a population)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arrolamento ou inscrição de pessoas ou animais”.

What does recenseamento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecensus (official count of members of a population)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. arrolamento ou inscrição de pessoas ou animais 2. relação dos indivíduos que estão em circunstâncias de desempenhar certos cargos ou de exercer certos direitos

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 recenseamento

  • recenseamentos plural

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

How do you pronounce recenseamento?

  • Brazil /ʁe.sẽ.se.aˈmẽ.tu/
  • Brazil [he.sẽ.se.aˈmẽ.tu]
  • /ʁe.sẽ.se.aˈmẽ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to recenseamento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is recenseamento in Portuguese?

recenseamento appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.

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

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