desdizer
Portuguese, verb/dez.d͡ʒiˈze(ʁ)/
desdizer is spelled D-E-S-D-I-Z-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desdizer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to contradict (deny the truth of a statement or statements)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contradizer”.
What does desdizer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to contradict (deny the truth of a statement or statements)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. contradizer 2. desmentir
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 desdizer
- desdigo first-person present singular
- desdisse first-person preterite singular
- desdito participle past
- desdizeres infinitive second-person singular
- desdizermos first-person infinitive plural
- desdizerdes infinitive plural second-person
- desdizerem infinitive plural third-person
- desdizendo gerund
- desditos masculine participle past
- desdita feminine participle past
- desditas feminine participle past
- desdizes indicative present second-person
- desdiz indicative present singular
- desdizemos first-person indicative plural
- desdizeis indicative plural present
- desdizem indicative plural present
- desdizia first-person imperfect indicative
- desdizias imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desdizer?
- Brazil /dez.d͡ʒiˈze(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.d͡ʒiˈze(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.d͡ʒiˈze(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 desdizer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desdizer in Portuguese?
desdizer appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).