telefonema
Portuguese, noun/te.le.foˈnẽ.mɐ/
telefonema is spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-E-M-A (10 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Telefonema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “call (telephone conversation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ligação telefônica, comunicação pelo telefone”.
What does telefonema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecall (telephone conversation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ligação telefônica, comunicação pelo telefone
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 telefonema
- telefonemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce telefonema?
- Brazil /te.le.foˈnẽ.mɐ/
- Portugal /tɨ.lɨ.fuˈne.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is telefonema in Portuguese?
telefonema appears 4.8 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).