bailar
Portuguese, verb/bajˈla(ʁ)/
bailar is spelled B-A-I-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 49,356th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bailar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “executar dançando”.
What does bailar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. executar dançando 2. dançar 3. tremer; oscilar
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 bailar
- bailo first-person present singular
- bailei first-person preterite singular
- bailado participle past
- bailares infinitive second-person singular
- bailarmos first-person infinitive plural
- bailardes infinitive plural second-person
- bailarem infinitive plural third-person
- bailando gerund
- bailados masculine participle past
- bailada feminine participle past
- bailadas feminine participle past
- bailas indicative present second-person
- baila indicative present singular
- bailamos first-person indicative plural
- bailais indicative plural present
- bailam indicative plural present
- bailava first-person imperfect indicative
- bailavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bailar?
- Brazil /bajˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [baɪ̯ˈla(h)]
- /bajˈla(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 bailar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bailar in Portuguese?
bailar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).