enlouquecer
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.lo(w).keˈse(ʁ)/
enlouquecer is spelled E-N-L-O-U-Q-U-E-C-E-R (11 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enlouquecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to go mad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar(-se) louco”.
What does enlouquecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go mad
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar(-se) louco 2. desvairar 3. perder o uso da razão
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 enlouquecer
- enlouqueço first-person present singular
- enlouqueci first-person preterite singular
- enlouquecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- enlouqueceres infinitive second-person singular
- enlouquecermos first-person infinitive plural
- enlouquecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- enlouquecerem infinitive plural third-person
- enlouquecendo gerund
- enlouquecidos masculine participle past
- enlouquecida feminine participle past
- enlouquecidas feminine participle past
- enlouqueces indicative present second-person
- enlouquece indicative present singular
- enlouquecemos first-person indicative plural
- enlouqueceis indicative plural present
- enlouquecem indicative plural present
- enlouquecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enlouquecer?
- Brazil /ẽ.lo(w).keˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.lo(ʊ̯).keˈse(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.lo(w).keˈse(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enlouquecer in Portuguese?
enlouquecer appears 3.8 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).