centrifugar
Portuguese, verb/sẽ.tɾi.fuˈɡa(ʁ)/
centrifugar is spelled C-E-N-T-R-I-F-U-G-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese, the 187,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centrifugar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to centrifuge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does centrifugar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to centrifuge
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of centrifugar
- centrifugo first-person present singular
- centrifuguei first-person preterite singular
- centrifugado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- centrifugares infinitive second-person singular
- centrifugarmos first-person infinitive plural
- centrifugardes infinitive plural second-person
- centrifugarem infinitive plural third-person
- centrifugando gerund
- centrifugados masculine participle past
- centrifugada feminine participle past
- centrifugadas feminine participle past
- centrifugas indicative present second-person
- centrifuga indicative present singular
- centrifugamos first-person indicative plural
- centrifugais indicative plural present
- centrifugam indicative plural present
- centrifugava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce centrifugar?
- Brazil /sẽ.tɾi.fuˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sẽ.tɾi.fuˈɡa(h)]
- /sẽ.tɾi.fuˈɡa(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 centrifugar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is centrifugar in Portuguese?
centrifugar appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).