caracterizar
Portuguese, verb/ka.ɾa.ki.te.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
caracterizar is spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-E-R-I-Z-A-R (12 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 18,535th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caracterizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to characterize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “determinar o caráter de”.
What does caracterizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to characterize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. determinar o caráter de 2. pôr em evidência 3. dar ou ter as características de 4. vestir(-se) com fantasia
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 caracterizar
- caracterizo first-person present singular
- caracterizei first-person preterite singular
- caracterizado participle past
- caracterizares infinitive second-person singular
- caracterizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- caracterizardes infinitive plural second-person
- caracterizarem infinitive plural third-person
- caracterizando gerund
- caracterizados masculine participle past
- caracterizada feminine participle past
- caracterizadas feminine participle past
- caracterizas indicative present second-person
- caracteriza indicative present singular
- caracterizamos first-person indicative plural
- caracterizais indicative plural present
- caracterizam indicative plural present
- caracterizava first-person imperfect indicative
- caracterizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caracterizar?
- Brazil /ka.ɾa.ki.te.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ka.ɾa.ki.te.ɾiˈza(h)]
- Brazil /ka.ɾak.te.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to caracterizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is caracterizar in Portuguese?
caracterizar appears 2.7 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).