dedilhar
Portuguese, verb/de.d͡ʒiˈʎa(ʁ)/
dedilhar is spelled D-E-D-I-L-H-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,020th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dedilhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to finger or touch, especially the strings of a musical instrument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atuar com os dedos, geralmente sobre as cordas ou teclas de um instrumento”.
What does dedilhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to finger or touch, especially the strings of a musical instrument
- 2
to drum one's fingers
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atuar com os dedos, geralmente sobre as cordas ou teclas de um instrumento
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 dedilhar
- dedilho first-person present singular
- dedilhei first-person preterite singular
- dedilhado participle past
- dedilhares infinitive second-person singular
- dedilharmos first-person infinitive plural
- dedilhardes infinitive plural second-person
- dedilharem infinitive plural third-person
- dedilhando gerund
- dedilhados masculine participle past
- dedilhada feminine participle past
- dedilhadas feminine participle past
- dedilhas indicative present second-person
- dedilha indicative present singular
- dedilhamos first-person indicative plural
- dedilhais indicative plural present
- dedilham indicative plural present
- dedilhava first-person imperfect indicative
- dedilhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dedilhar?
- Brazil /de.d͡ʒiˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.d͡ʒiˈʎa(h)]
- /de.d͡ʒiˈʎa(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 dedilhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dedilhar in Portuguese?
dedilhar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).