decifrar
Portuguese, verb/de.siˈfɾa(ʁ)/
decifrar is spelled D-E-C-I-F-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,941st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Decifrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to decipher, decode, unscramble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “devolver uma informação cifrada à sua forma original ou a uma forma equivalente”.
What does decifrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decipher, decode, unscramble
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. devolver uma informação cifrada à sua forma original ou a uma forma equivalente 2. interpretar, compreender
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 decifrar
- decifro first-person present singular
- decifrei first-person preterite singular
- decifrado participle past
- decifrares infinitive second-person singular
- decifrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- decifrardes infinitive plural second-person
- decifrarem infinitive plural third-person
- decifrando gerund
- decifrados masculine participle past
- decifrada feminine participle past
- decifradas feminine participle past
- decifras indicative present second-person
- decifra indicative present singular
- deciframos first-person indicative plural
- decifrais indicative plural present
- decifram indicative plural present
- decifrava first-person imperfect indicative
- decifravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce decifrar?
- Brazil /de.siˈfɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.siˈfɾa(h)]
- /de.siˈfɾa(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 decifrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is decifrar in Portuguese?
decifrar appears 2.4 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).