desinformar
Portuguese, verb/de.zĩ.foʁˈma(ʁ)/
desinformar is spelled D-E-S-I-N-F-O-R-M-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desinformar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to misinform” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “propagar informação falsa deliberadamente”.
What does desinformar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to misinform
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. propagar informação falsa deliberadamente
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 desinformar
- desinformo first-person present singular
- desinformei first-person preterite singular
- desinformado participle past
- desinformares infinitive second-person singular
- desinformarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desinformardes infinitive plural second-person
- desinformarem infinitive plural third-person
- desinformando gerund
- desinformados masculine participle past
- desinformada feminine participle past
- desinformadas feminine participle past
- desinformas indicative present second-person
- desinforma indicative present singular
- desinformamos first-person indicative plural
- desinformais indicative plural present
- desinformam indicative plural present
- desinformava first-person imperfect indicative
- desinformavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desinformar?
- Brazil /de.zĩ.foʁˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zĩ.foɦˈma(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zĩ.foʁˈma(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 desinformar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desinformar in Portuguese?
desinformar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).