colmatar
Portuguese, verb/kow.maˈta(ʁ)/
colmatar is spelled C-O-L-M-A-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,725th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colmatar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “direcionar águas abundantes em sedimentos para regiões mais baixas, para que eles, ali se depositando…”.
What does colmatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fill
- 2
to bridge
- 3
to rectify; to correct
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. direcionar águas abundantes em sedimentos para regiões mais baixas, para que eles, ali se depositando, aterrem ou fertilizem o terreno, tapar, encher de entulho, encher de sedimentos. 2. suprir algo que está faltando
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 colmatar
- colmato first-person present singular
- colmatei first-person preterite singular
- colmatado participle past
- colmatares infinitive second-person singular
- colmatarmos first-person infinitive plural
- colmatardes infinitive plural second-person
- colmatarem infinitive plural third-person
- colmatando gerund
- colmatados masculine participle past
- colmatada feminine participle past
- colmatadas feminine participle past
- colmatas indicative present second-person
- colmata indicative present singular
- colmatamos first-person indicative plural
- colmatais indicative plural present
- colmatam indicative plural present
- colmatava first-person imperfect indicative
- colmatavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colmatar?
- Brazil /kow.maˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [koʊ̯.maˈta(h)]
- /kow.maˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is colmatar in Portuguese?
colmatar 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).