arriscar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁisˈka(ʁ)/
arriscar is spelled A-R-R-I-S-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,260th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arriscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to risk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em risco”.
What does arriscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to risk
- 2
to venture, hazard
- 3
to imperil
- 4
to take a risk; to dare
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em risco 2. aventurar
verb: 1. aventurar-se 2. afoitar-se
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 arriscar
- arrisco first-person present singular
- arrisquei first-person preterite singular
- arriscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- arriscares infinitive second-person singular
- arriscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arriscardes infinitive plural second-person
- arriscarem infinitive plural third-person
- arriscando gerund
- arriscados masculine participle past
- arriscada feminine participle past
- arriscadas feminine participle past
- arriscas indicative present second-person
- arrisca indicative present singular
- arriscamos first-person indicative plural
- arriscais indicative plural present
- arriscam indicative plural present
- arriscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arriscar?
- Brazil /a.ʁisˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hisˈka(h)]
- /a.ʁisˈka(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 arriscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arriscar in Portuguese?
arriscar appears 10 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).