desvelar
Portuguese, verb/dez.veˈla(ʁ)/
desvelar is spelled D-E-S-V-E-L-A-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). Desvelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to uncover, to unveil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não deixar dormir”.
What does desvelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to uncover, to unveil
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. não deixar dormir 2. revelar, elucidar 3. esforçar-se
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 desvelar
- desvelo first-person present singular
- desvelei first-person preterite singular
- desvelado participle past
- desvelares infinitive second-person singular
- desvelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desvelardes infinitive plural second-person
- desvelarem infinitive plural third-person
- desvelando gerund
- desvelados masculine participle past
- desvelada feminine participle past
- desveladas feminine participle past
- desvelas indicative present second-person
- desvela indicative present singular
- desvelamos first-person indicative plural
- desvelais indicative plural present
- desvelam indicative plural present
- desvelava first-person imperfect indicative
- desvelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desvelar?
- Brazil /dez.veˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.veˈla(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.veˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desvelar in Portuguese?
desvelar 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).