embelezar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.be.leˈza(ʁ)/
embelezar is spelled E-M-B-E-L-E-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,304th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embelezar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to beautify (make beautiful or more beautiful)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de tornar belo; embelecer”.
What does embelezar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beautify (make beautiful or more beautiful)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ação de tornar belo; embelecer 2. alindar, enfeitar: 3. alindar-se, ataviar-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 embelezar
- embelezo first-person present singular
- embelezei first-person preterite singular
- embelezado participle past
- embelezares infinitive second-person singular
- embelezarmos first-person infinitive plural
- embelezardes infinitive plural second-person
- embelezarem infinitive plural third-person
- embelezando gerund
- embelezados masculine participle past
- embelezada feminine participle past
- embelezadas feminine participle past
- embelezas indicative present second-person
- embeleza indicative present singular
- embelezamos first-person indicative plural
- embelezais indicative plural present
- embelezam indicative plural present
- embelezava first-person imperfect indicative
- embelezavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embelezar?
- Brazil /ẽ.be.leˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.be.leˈza(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.be.leˈza(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embelezar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embelezar in Portuguese?
embelezar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).