explorar
Portuguese, verb/is.ploˈɾa(ʁ)/
explorar is spelled E-X-P-L-O-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,833rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Explorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to explore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tratar de descobrir”.
What does explorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to explore
- 2
to exploit
- 3
to discover
- 4
to research
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tratar de descobrir 2. observar 3. pesquisar
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 explorar
- exploro first-person present singular
- explorei first-person preterite singular
- explorado participle past
- explorares infinitive second-person singular
- explorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- explorardes infinitive plural second-person
- explorarem infinitive plural third-person
- explorando gerund
- explorados masculine participle past
- explorada feminine participle past
- exploradas feminine participle past
- exploras indicative present second-person
- explora indicative present singular
- exploramos first-person indicative plural
- explorais indicative plural present
- exploram indicative plural present
- explorava first-person imperfect indicative
- exploravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce explorar?
- Brazil /is.ploˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.ploˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /es.ploˈɾa(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 explorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is explorar in Portuguese?
explorar appears 22 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).