enrugar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʁuˈɡa(ʁ)/
enrugar is spelled E-N-R-U-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 131,183rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enrugar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wrinkle (to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “causar ou criar rugas”.
What does enrugar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wrinkle (to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. causar ou criar rugas 2. encher-se de rugas 3. vincar-se 4. arrugar-se
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 enrugar
- enrugo first-person present singular
- enruguei first-person preterite singular
- enrugado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- enrugares infinitive second-person singular
- enrugarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enrugardes infinitive plural second-person
- enrugarem infinitive plural third-person
- enrugando gerund
- enrugados masculine participle past
- enrugada feminine participle past
- enrugadas feminine participle past
- enrugas indicative present second-person
- enruga indicative present singular
- enrugamos first-person indicative plural
- enrugais indicative plural present
- enrugam indicative plural present
- enrugava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enrugar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʁuˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.huˈɡa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʁuˈɡa(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 enrugar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enrugar in Portuguese?
enrugar 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).