entortar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.toʁˈta(ʁ)/
entortar is spelled E-N-T-O-R-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 65,361st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entortar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bend (to cause something to change its shape into a curve)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dobrar”.
What does entortar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bend (to cause something to change its shape into a curve)
- 2
to bend (to become curved)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dobrar 2. recurvar 3. tornar torto
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 entortar
- entorto first-person present singular
- entortei first-person preterite singular
- entortado participle past
- entortares infinitive second-person singular
- entortarmos first-person infinitive plural
- entortardes infinitive plural second-person
- entortarem infinitive plural third-person
- entortando gerund
- entortados masculine participle past
- entortada feminine participle past
- entortadas feminine participle past
- entortas indicative present second-person
- entorta indicative present singular
- entortamos first-person indicative plural
- entortais indicative plural present
- entortam indicative plural present
- entortava first-person imperfect indicative
- entortavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entortar?
- Brazil /ẽ.toʁˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.tohˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.toʁˈta(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 entortar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entortar in Portuguese?
entortar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).