desperdiçar
Portuguese, verb/des.peʁ.d͡ʒiˈsa(ʁ)/
desperdiçar is spelled D-E-S-P-E-R-D-I-Ç-A-R (11 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desperdiçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to waste, squander” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gastar sem proveito; malbaratar; esperdiçar; esbanjar”.
What does desperdiçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to waste, squander
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. gastar sem proveito; malbaratar; esperdiçar; esbanjar
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 desperdiçar
- desperdiço first-person present singular
- desperdicei first-person preterite singular
- desperdiçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- desperdiçares infinitive second-person singular
- desperdiçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desperdiçardes infinitive plural second-person
- desperdiçarem infinitive plural third-person
- desperdiçando gerund
- desperdiçados masculine participle past
- desperdiçada feminine participle past
- desperdiçadas feminine participle past
- desperdiças indicative present second-person
- desperdiça indicative present singular
- desperdiçamos first-person indicative plural
- desperdiçais indicative plural present
- desperdiçam indicative plural present
- desperdiçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desperdiçar?
- Brazil /des.peʁ.d͡ʒiˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.peɦ.d͡ʒiˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.peʁ.d͡ʒiˈsa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desperdiçar in Portuguese?
desperdiçar appears 3.8 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).