substância
Portuguese, noun
substância is spelled S-U-B-S-T-Â-N-C-I-A (10 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Substância is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “substance; physical matter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, substancia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “matéria”.
What does substância mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesubstance; physical matter
- 2
femininesubstance (the essential part of anything)
- 3
femininethe power to influence others or to be groundbreaking
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. matéria 2. essência
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 substância
- substâncias plural
- substancia alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to substância
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is substância in Portuguese?
substância appears 12 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).