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chantagear

Portuguese, verb/ʃɐ̃.ta.ʒeˈa(ʁ)/

chantagear is spelled C-H-A-N-T-A-G-E-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,837th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chantagear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to blackmail (to extort by threatening with injury other than bodily harm)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de fazer uma chantagem”.

What does chantagear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to blackmail (to extort by threatening with injury other than bodily harm)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. ato de fazer uma chantagem 2. ameaçar contar algo que difame uma pessoa

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 chantagear

  • chantageio first-person present singular
  • chantageei first-person preterite singular
  • chantageado participle past
  • chantageares infinitive second-person singular
  • chantagearmos first-person infinitive plural
  • chantageardes infinitive plural second-person
  • chantagearem infinitive plural third-person
  • chantageando gerund
  • chantageados masculine participle past
  • chantageada feminine participle past
  • chantageadas feminine participle past
  • chantageias indicative present second-person
  • chantageia indicative present singular
  • chantageamos first-person indicative plural
  • chantageais indicative plural present
  • chantageiam indicative plural present
  • chantageava first-person imperfect indicative
  • chantageavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chantagear?

  • Brazil /ʃɐ̃.ta.ʒeˈa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ʃɐ̃.ta.ʒeˈa(h)]
  • /ʃɐ̃.ta.ʒeˈa(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 chantagear

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is chantagear in Portuguese?

chantagear 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).

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