enfileirar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.fi.le(j)ˈɾa(ʁ)/
enfileirar is spelled E-N-F-I-L-E-I-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese, the 144,068th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfileirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to align (put in rows)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em fileiras”.
What does enfileirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to align (put in rows)
- 2
to queue
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em fileiras 2. alinhar 3. dispor-se em fileiras
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 enfileirar
- enfileiro first-person present singular
- enfileirei first-person preterite singular
- enfileirado participle past
- enfileirares infinitive second-person singular
- enfileirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enfileirardes infinitive plural second-person
- enfileirarem infinitive plural third-person
- enfileirando gerund
- enfileirados masculine participle past
- enfileirada feminine participle past
- enfileiradas feminine participle past
- enfileiras indicative present second-person
- enfileira indicative present singular
- enfileiramos first-person indicative plural
- enfileirais indicative plural present
- enfileiram indicative plural present
- enfileirava first-person imperfect indicative
- enfileiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfileirar?
- Brazil /ẽ.fi.le(j)ˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.fi.le(ɪ̯)ˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.fi.le(j)ˈɾa(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 enfileirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfileirar in Portuguese?
enfileirar appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).