estilhaçar
Portuguese, verb/is.t͡ʃi.ʎaˈsa(ʁ)/
estilhaçar is spelled E-S-T-I-L-H-A-Ç-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estilhaçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shatter (to violently break something into pieces)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does estilhaçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shatter (to violently break something into pieces)
- 2
to shatter (to break into tiny pieces)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of estilhaçar
- estilhaço first-person present singular
- estilhacei first-person preterite singular
- estilhaçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- estilhaçares infinitive second-person singular
- estilhaçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- estilhaçardes infinitive plural second-person
- estilhaçarem infinitive plural third-person
- estilhaçando gerund
- estilhaçados masculine participle past
- estilhaçada feminine participle past
- estilhaçadas feminine participle past
- estilhaças indicative present second-person
- estilhaça indicative present singular
- estilhaçamos first-person indicative plural
- estilhaçais indicative plural present
- estilhaçam indicative plural present
- estilhaçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estilhaçar?
- Brazil /is.t͡ʃi.ʎaˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.t͡ʃi.ʎaˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /es.t͡ʃi.ʎaˈsa(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 estilhaçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estilhaçar in Portuguese?
estilhaçar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).