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versão

Portuguese, noun/veʁˈsɐ̃w̃/

versão is spelled V-E-R-S-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears 135 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 727th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Versão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pouring (act or effect of pouring)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “explicação”.

What does versão mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepouring (act or effect of pouring)

  2. 2

    femininecontortion, turn

  3. 3

    femininealteration, change

  4. 4

    femininetranslation, version (act or effect of translating from one language to another)

  5. 5

    femininevariant, version (different way of telling the same thing)

  6. 6

    feminineexplanation, interpretation

  7. 7

    femininerumor

  8. 8

    feminineversion (change made to the position of the fetus in the uterus)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. explicação 2. tradução 3. boato 4. ato ou efeito de verter

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 versão

  • versões plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce versão?

  • Brazil /veʁˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [vehˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • /veɾˈsɐ̃w̃/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to versão

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is versão in Portuguese?

versão appears 135 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).

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