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visão

Portuguese, noun/viˈzɐ̃w̃/

visão is spelled V-I-S-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,031st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Visão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “view (the act of seeing something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “um dos cinco sentidos”.

What does visão mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineview (the act of seeing something)

  2. 2

    femininesight; eyesight; vision (the ability to see; the condition of not being blind)

  3. 3

    femininevision; eye (the ability to notice things)

  4. 4

    femininevision (an idea about how things should be in the future)

  5. 5

    feminineview; vision (mental image)

  6. 6

    feminineview (a person’s way of understanding something)

  7. 7

    feminineview (logical table in database formed from data from physical tables)

  8. 8

    femininevision (a mystical mental image of something that happened or will happen)

noun

  1. 1

    masculineAmerican mink

  2. 2

    masculinemink

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. um dos cinco sentidos 2. percepção 3. imagem que se acredita ver em sonhos, ou por medo, loucura, superstição 4. revelação

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 visão

  • visões plural

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

How do you pronounce visão?

  • Brazil /viˈzɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [viˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • Portugal /viˈzɐ̃w̃/

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

English words that translate to visão

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

How common is visão in Portuguese?

visão appears 95 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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