actualizar
Portuguese, verb
actualizar is spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Actualizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of atualizar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar actual”.
What does actualizar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of atualizar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar actual 2. modernizar
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 actualizar
- actualizo first-person present singular
- actualizei first-person preterite singular
- actualizado participle past
- actualizares infinitive second-person singular
- actualizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- actualizardes infinitive plural second-person
- actualizarem infinitive plural third-person
- actualizando gerund
- actualizados masculine participle past
- actualizada feminine participle past
- actualizadas feminine participle past
- actualizas indicative present second-person
- actualiza indicative present singular
- actualizamos first-person indicative plural
- actualizais indicative plural present
- actualizam indicative plural present
- actualizava first-person imperfect indicative
- actualizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is actualizar in Portuguese?
actualizar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).