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enrijecer

Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʁi.ʒeˈse(ʁ)/

enrijecer is spelled E-N-R-I-J-E-C-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 129,832nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enrijecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to harden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar rijo; endurecer, severizar”.

What does enrijecer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to harden

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. tornar rijo; endurecer, severizar

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 enrijecer

  • enrijeço first-person present singular
  • enrijeci first-person preterite singular
  • enrijecido participle past
  • c-ç alternation
  • enrijeceres infinitive second-person singular
  • enrijecermos first-person infinitive plural
  • enrijecerdes infinitive plural second-person
  • enrijecerem infinitive plural third-person
  • enrijecendo gerund
  • enrijecidos masculine participle past
  • enrijecida feminine participle past
  • enrijecidas feminine participle past
  • enrijeces indicative present second-person
  • enrijece indicative present singular
  • enrijecemos first-person indicative plural
  • enrijeceis indicative plural present
  • enrijecem indicative plural present
  • enrijecia first-person imperfect indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce enrijecer?

  • Brazil /ẽ.ʁi.ʒeˈse(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ẽ.hi.ʒeˈse(h)]
  • Brazil /ĩ.ʁi.ʒeˈse(ʁ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is enrijecer in Portuguese?

enrijecer appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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