confessar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.feˈsa(ʁ)/
confessar is spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-A-R (9 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confessar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “declarar”.
What does confessar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confess; to own up to; to admit to (to admit one has done something, especially something bad)
- 2
to confess (to disclose one’s sins to a clergyman)
- 3
to confess (to hear someone’s confessions)
- 4
to confess; to follow (to have a given religion or set of beliefs)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. declarar 2. revelar 3. reconhecer a verdade 4. reconhecer a realidade de ação, erro, culpa, etc
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 confessar
- confesso first-person present singular
- confessei first-person preterite singular
- confessado participle past
- confessares infinitive second-person singular
- confessarmos first-person infinitive plural
- confessardes infinitive plural second-person
- confessarem infinitive plural third-person
- confessando gerund
- confessados masculine participle past
- confessada feminine participle past
- confessadas feminine participle past
- confessas indicative present second-person
- confessa indicative present singular
- confessamos first-person indicative plural
- confessais indicative plural present
- confessam indicative plural present
- confessava first-person imperfect indicative
- confessavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confessar?
- Brazil /kõ.feˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.feˈsa(h)]
- /kõ.feˈsa(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 confessar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confessar in Portuguese?
confessar appears 7.1 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).