disfarçar
Portuguese, verb/d͡ʒis.faʁˈsa(ʁ)/
disfarçar is spelled D-I-S-F-A-R-Ç-A-R (9 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,840th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disfarçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to change the appearance; to disguise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vestir de modo que pareça ser outro; mascarar; encobrir; dissimular; fingir”.
What does disfarçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to change the appearance; to disguise
O ladrão disfarçou-se de polícia.
- 2
to pretend that (something) is not happening, or did not happen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vestir de modo que pareça ser outro; mascarar; encobrir; dissimular; fingir 2. usar de fingimento 3. vestir-se de modo diferente para parecer outro
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 disfarçar
- disfarço first-person present singular
- disfarcei first-person preterite singular
- disfarçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- disfarçares infinitive second-person singular
- disfarçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- disfarçardes infinitive plural second-person
- disfarçarem infinitive plural third-person
- disfarçando gerund
- disfarçados masculine participle past
- disfarçada feminine participle past
- disfarçadas feminine participle past
- disfarças indicative present second-person
- disfarça indicative present singular
- disfarçamos first-person indicative plural
- disfarçais indicative plural present
- disfarçam indicative plural present
- disfarçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disfarçar?
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.faʁˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [d͡ʒis.fahˈsa(h)]
- Portugal /diʃ.fɐɾ.ˈsaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disfarçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disfarçar in Portuguese?
disfarçar appears 4.7 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).