desvendar
Portuguese, verb/dez.vẽˈda(ʁ)/
desvendar is spelled D-E-S-V-E-N-D-A-R (9 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,093rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desvendar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unveil, to remove a blindfold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “descobrir; revelar”.
What does desvendar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unveil, to remove a blindfold
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. descobrir; revelar
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 desvendar
- desvendo first-person present singular
- desvendei first-person preterite singular
- desvendado participle past
- desvendares infinitive second-person singular
- desvendarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desvendardes infinitive plural second-person
- desvendarem infinitive plural third-person
- desvendando gerund
- desvendados masculine participle past
- desvendada feminine participle past
- desvendadas feminine participle past
- desvendas indicative present second-person
- desvenda indicative present singular
- desvendamos first-person indicative plural
- desvendais indicative plural present
- desvendam indicative plural present
- desvendava first-person imperfect indicative
- desvendavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desvendar?
- Brazil /dez.vẽˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.vẽˈda(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.vẽˈda(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desvendar in Portuguese?
desvendar appears 4.1 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).