telefonia
Portuguese, noun/te.le.foˈni.ɐ/
telefonia is spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-I-A (9 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,879th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Telefonia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “telephony” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas”.
What does telefonia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetelephony
- 2
Portugaldatedfeminineradio (receiver)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas
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 telefonia
- telefonias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce telefonia?
- Brazil /te.le.foˈni.ɐ/
- Portugal /tɨ.lɨ.fuˈni.ɐ/
- Portugal /tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to telefonia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is telefonia in Portuguese?
telefonia appears 9.1 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).