chancelar
Portuguese, verb/ʃɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/
chancelar is spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-L-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chancelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sign, to stamp, to seal (a document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “selar, carimbar, assinar; pôr a chancela (selo)”.
What does chancelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sign, to stamp, to seal (a document)
- 2
to approve
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. selar, carimbar, assinar; pôr a chancela (selo) 2. oficializar, tornar legal 3. acordar, firmar acordo 4. aprovar, referendar
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 chancelar
- chancelo first-person present singular
- chancelei first-person preterite singular
- chancelado participle past
- chancelares infinitive second-person singular
- chancelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- chancelardes infinitive plural second-person
- chancelarem infinitive plural third-person
- chancelando gerund
- chancelados masculine participle past
- chancelada feminine participle past
- chanceladas feminine participle past
- chancelas indicative present second-person
- chancela indicative present singular
- chancelamos first-person indicative plural
- chancelais indicative plural present
- chancelam indicative plural present
- chancelava first-person imperfect indicative
- chancelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chancelar?
- Brazil /ʃɐ̃.seˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃɐ̃.seˈla(h)]
- /ʃɐ̃.seˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chancelar in Portuguese?
chancelar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).