enferrujar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.fe.ʁuˈʒa(ʁ)/
enferrujar is spelled E-N-F-E-R-R-U-J-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enferrujar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rust (to become rusty)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar ferrujento”.
What does enferrujar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rust (to become rusty)
- 2
to rust (to cause to become rusty)
- 3
to rust (to become dull or impaired by inaction)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar ferrujento 2. criar ferrugem ou alforra 3. estar sem uso, sem exercício
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 enferrujar
- enferrujo first-person present singular
- enferrujei first-person preterite singular
- enferrujado participle past
- enferrujares infinitive second-person singular
- enferrujarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enferrujardes infinitive plural second-person
- enferrujarem infinitive plural third-person
- enferrujando gerund
- enferrujados masculine participle past
- enferrujada feminine participle past
- enferrujadas feminine participle past
- enferrujas indicative present second-person
- enferruja indicative present singular
- enferrujamos first-person indicative plural
- enferrujais indicative plural present
- enferrujam indicative plural present
- enferrujava first-person imperfect indicative
- enferrujavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enferrujar?
- Brazil /ẽ.fe.ʁuˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.fe.huˈʒa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.fe.ʁuˈʒa(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 enferrujar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enferrujar in Portuguese?
enferrujar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).