enfrentar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.fɾẽˈta(ʁ)/
enfrentar is spelled E-N-F-R-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,182nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfrentar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to face, confront” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atacar de frente”.
What does enfrentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to face, confront
- 2
to encounter
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atacar de frente 2. defrontar 3. arrostar
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 enfrentar
- enfrento first-person present singular
- enfrentei first-person preterite singular
- enfrentado participle past
- enfrentares infinitive second-person singular
- enfrentarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enfrentardes infinitive plural second-person
- enfrentarem infinitive plural third-person
- enfrentando gerund
- enfrentados masculine participle past
- enfrentada feminine participle past
- enfrentadas feminine participle past
- enfrentas indicative present second-person
- enfrenta indicative present singular
- enfrentamos first-person indicative plural
- enfrentais indicative plural present
- enfrentam indicative plural present
- enfrentava first-person imperfect indicative
- enfrentavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfrentar?
- Brazil /ẽ.fɾẽˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.fɾẽˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.fɾẽˈta(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 enfrentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enfrentar in Portuguese?
enfrentar appears 43 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).