adulterar
Portuguese, verb/a.duw.teˈɾa(ʁ)/
adulterar is spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 63,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adulterar is a Portuguese verb meaning “tamper (alter by making unauthorized changes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “falsificar”.
What does adulterar mean in English?
verb
- 1
tamper (alter by making unauthorized changes)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. falsificar 2. corromper 3. cometer adultério
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 adulterar
- adultero first-person present singular
- adulterei first-person preterite singular
- adulterado participle past
- adulterares infinitive second-person singular
- adulterarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adulterardes infinitive plural second-person
- adulterarem infinitive plural third-person
- adulterando gerund
- adulterados masculine participle past
- adulterada feminine participle past
- adulteradas feminine participle past
- adulteras indicative present second-person
- adultera indicative present singular
- adulteramos first-person indicative plural
- adulterais indicative plural present
- adulteram indicative plural present
- adulterava first-person imperfect indicative
- adulteravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adulterar?
- Brazil /a.duw.teˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.duʊ̯.teˈɾa(h)]
- /a.duw.teˈɾa(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 adulterar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adulterar in Portuguese?
adulterar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).