vazão
Portuguese, noun/vaˈzɐ̃w̃/
vazão is spelled V-A-Z-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,080th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vazão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “emptying (the act of removing all fluid from a container)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que vazamento”.
What does vazão mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineemptying (the act of removing all fluid from a container)
- 2
femininedischarge (volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time)
- 3
feminineflow (movement of people or things in a particular direction)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o mesmo que vazamento 2. volume de um fluido que escoa através da seção transversal de um conduto por unidade de tempo 3. extração; venda 4. solução, resolução
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 vazão
- vazões plural
- vazaõ alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vazão?
- Brazil /vaˈzɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [vaˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /vɐˈzɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vazão in Portuguese?
vazão appears 2.6 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).