cancelar
Portuguese, verb/kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/
cancelar is spelled C-A-N-C-E-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,394th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cancelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to call off, to cancel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desmarcar um compromisso”.
What does cancelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to call off, to cancel
A festa foi cancelada.
- 2
to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)
Ela foi cancelada na época, mas conseguiu reconquistar o público.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desmarcar um compromisso 2. parar o pagamento de um cheque, assinatura de revista, etc 3. tornar sem efeito ou validade 4. promover o boicote público a indivíduo, instituição etc. que possuam atitudes, posturas e comportamentos considerados inaceitáveis
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 cancelar
- cancelo first-person present singular
- cancelei first-person preterite singular
- cancelado participle past
- cancelares infinitive second-person singular
- cancelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cancelardes infinitive plural second-person
- cancelarem infinitive plural third-person
- cancelando gerund
- cancelados masculine participle past
- cancelada feminine participle past
- canceladas feminine participle past
- cancelas indicative present second-person
- cancela indicative present singular
- cancelamos first-person indicative plural
- cancelais indicative plural present
- cancelam indicative plural present
- cancelava first-person imperfect indicative
- cancelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cancelar?
- Brazil /kɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kɐ̃.seˈla(h)]
- /kɐ̃.seˈla(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 cancelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cancelar in Portuguese?
cancelar appears 15 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).