aguçar
Portuguese, verb/a.ɡuˈsa(ʁ)/
aguçar is spelled A-G-U-Ç-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 82,742nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aguçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sharpen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar agudo”.
What does aguçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sharpen
- 2
to whet
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar agudo 2. afiar
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 aguçar
- aguço first-person present singular
- agucei first-person preterite singular
- aguçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- aguçares infinitive second-person singular
- aguçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aguçardes infinitive plural second-person
- aguçarem infinitive plural third-person
- aguçando gerund
- aguçados masculine participle past
- aguçada feminine participle past
- aguçadas feminine participle past
- aguças indicative present second-person
- aguça indicative present singular
- aguçamos first-person indicative plural
- aguçais indicative plural present
- aguçam indicative plural present
- aguçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aguçar?
- Brazil /a.ɡuˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.ɡuˈsa(h)]
- /a.ɡuˈsa(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 aguçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aguçar in Portuguese?
aguçar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).