desmitificar
Portuguese, verb/dez.mi.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
desmitificar is spelled D-E-S-M-I-T-I-F-I-C-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 171,147th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desmitificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to demythologize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar a qualidade de mito de algo”.
What does desmitificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demythologize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar a qualidade de mito de algo
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 desmitificar
- desmitifico first-person present singular
- desmitifiquei first-person preterite singular
- desmitificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desmitificares infinitive second-person singular
- desmitificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desmitificardes infinitive plural second-person
- desmitificarem infinitive plural third-person
- desmitificando gerund
- desmitificados masculine participle past
- desmitificada feminine participle past
- desmitificadas feminine participle past
- desmitificas indicative present second-person
- desmitifica indicative present singular
- desmitificamos first-person indicative plural
- desmitificais indicative plural present
- desmitificam indicative plural present
- desmitificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desmitificar?
- Brazil /dez.mi.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.mi.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
- /dez.mi.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desmitificar in Portuguese?
desmitificar appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).