contrabalançar
Portuguese, verb/kõ.tɾa.ba.lɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/
contrabalançar is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-L-A-N-Ç-A-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 55,453rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrabalançar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to counterbalance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “equilibrar, igualar em peso”.
What does contrabalançar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to counterbalance
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. equilibrar, igualar em peso 2. compensar, contrapesar
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 contrabalançar
- contrabalanço first-person present singular
- contrabalancei first-person preterite singular
- contrabalançado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- contrabalançares infinitive second-person singular
- contrabalançarmos first-person infinitive plural
- contrabalançardes infinitive plural second-person
- contrabalançarem infinitive plural third-person
- contrabalançando gerund
- contrabalançados masculine participle past
- contrabalançada feminine participle past
- contrabalançadas feminine participle past
- contrabalanças indicative present second-person
- contrabalança indicative present singular
- contrabalançamos first-person indicative plural
- contrabalançais indicative plural present
- contrabalançam indicative plural present
- contrabalançava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrabalançar?
- Brazil /kõ.tɾa.ba.lɐ̃ˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.tɾa.ba.lɐ̃ˈsa(h)]
- /kõ.tɾa.ba.lɐ̃ˈsa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is contrabalançar in Portuguese?
contrabalançar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).