acelerar
Portuguese, verb/a.se.leˈɾa(ʁ)/
acelerar is spelled A-C-E-L-E-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 6.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,812th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acelerar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to accelerate (to increase speed or acquire speed, become swift)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aumentar a velocidade”.
What does acelerar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accelerate (to increase speed or acquire speed, become swift)
- 2
to hurry up
- 3
to advance
- 4
to shorten (to reduce the time of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aumentar a velocidade 2. apressar
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 acelerar
- acelero first-person present singular
- acelerei first-person preterite singular
- acelerado participle past
- acelerares infinitive second-person singular
- acelerarmos first-person infinitive plural
- acelerardes infinitive plural second-person
- acelerarem infinitive plural third-person
- acelerando gerund
- acelerados masculine participle past
- acelerada feminine participle past
- aceleradas feminine participle past
- aceleras indicative present second-person
- acelera indicative present singular
- aceleramos first-person indicative plural
- acelerais indicative plural present
- aceleram indicative plural present
- acelerava first-person imperfect indicative
- aceleravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acelerar?
- Brazil /a.se.leˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.se.leˈɾa(h)]
- /a.se.leˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acelerar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acelerar in Portuguese?
acelerar appears 6.8 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).