contrabandear
Portuguese, verb/kõ.tɾa.bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
contrabandear is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-N-D-E-A-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrabandear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smuggle (to import or export illicitly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer contrabando”.
What does contrabandear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smuggle (to import or export illicitly)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer contrabando 2. trazer de forma ilegal
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 contrabandear
- contrabandeio first-person present singular
- contrabandeei first-person preterite singular
- contrabandeado participle past
- contrabandeares infinitive second-person singular
- contrabandearmos first-person infinitive plural
- contrabandeardes infinitive plural second-person
- contrabandearem infinitive plural third-person
- contrabandeando gerund
- contrabandeados masculine participle past
- contrabandeada feminine participle past
- contrabandeadas feminine participle past
- contrabandeias indicative present second-person
- contrabandeia indicative present singular
- contrabandeamos first-person indicative plural
- contrabandeais indicative plural present
- contrabandeiam indicative plural present
- contrabandeava first-person imperfect indicative
- contrabandeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrabandear?
- Brazil /kõ.tɾa.bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kõ.tɾa.bɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /kõ.tɾa.bɐ̃ˈd͡ʒja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contrabandear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrabandear in Portuguese?
contrabandear appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).