electrificar
Portuguese, verb
electrificar is spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Electrificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of eletrificar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que eletrificar”.
What does electrificar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of eletrificar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. o mesmo que eletrificar
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 electrificar
- electrifico first-person present singular
- electrifiquei first-person preterite singular
- electrificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- electrificares infinitive second-person singular
- electrificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- electrificardes infinitive plural second-person
- electrificarem infinitive plural third-person
- electrificando gerund
- electrificados masculine participle past
- electrificada feminine participle past
- electrificadas feminine participle past
- electrificas indicative present second-person
- electrifica indicative present singular
- electrificamos first-person indicative plural
- electrificais indicative plural present
- electrificam indicative plural present
- electrificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is electrificar in Portuguese?
electrificar appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).