ventriloquia
Portuguese, noun/vẽ.tɾi.loˈki.ɐ/
ventriloquia is spelled V-E-N-T-R-I-L-O-Q-U-I-A (12 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ventriloquia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “ventriloquism (the art of projecting one’s voice so that it appears to come from another source)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arte dos ventríloquos”.
What does ventriloquia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineventriloquism (the art of projecting one’s voice so that it appears to come from another source)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arte dos ventríloquos
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 ventriloquia
- ventriloquias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ventriloquia?
- Brazil /vẽ.tɾi.loˈki.ɐ/
- Portugal /vẽ.tɾi.luˈki.ɐ/
- Portugal /bẽ.tɾi.luˈki.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 ventriloquia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ventriloquia in Portuguese?
ventriloquia appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).