americanizar
Portuguese, verb/a.me.ɾi.ka.niˈza(ʁ)/
americanizar is spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese, the 183,862nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Americanizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “Americanise (to make American)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar um caráter americano a algo”.
What does americanizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Americanise (to make American)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar um caráter americano a algo
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 americanizar
- americanizo first-person present singular
- americanizei first-person preterite singular
- americanizado participle past
- americanizares infinitive second-person singular
- americanizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- americanizardes infinitive plural second-person
- americanizarem infinitive plural third-person
- americanizando gerund
- americanizados masculine participle past
- americanizada feminine participle past
- americanizadas feminine participle past
- americanizas indicative present second-person
- americaniza indicative present singular
- americanizamos first-person indicative plural
- americanizais indicative plural present
- americanizam indicative plural present
- americanizava first-person imperfect indicative
- americanizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce americanizar?
- Brazil /a.me.ɾi.ka.niˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.me.ɾi.ka.niˈza(h)]
- /a.me.ɾi.ka.niˈza(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 americanizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is americanizar in Portuguese?
americanizar appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).