facilitar
Portuguese, verb/fa.si.liˈta(ʁ)/
facilitar is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,459th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facilitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to facilitate (make simple or easy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar fácil”.
What does facilitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to facilitate (make simple or easy)
- 2
to help; assist
- 3
to make available; provide
- 4
to act carelessly, without discretion; trust excessively and recklessly
- 5
to ready
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar fácil 2. coadjuvar
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 facilitar
- facilito first-person present singular
- facilitei first-person preterite singular
- facilitado participle past
- facilitares infinitive second-person singular
- facilitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- facilitardes infinitive plural second-person
- facilitarem infinitive plural third-person
- facilitando gerund
- facilitados masculine participle past
- facilitada feminine participle past
- facilitadas feminine participle past
- facilitas indicative present second-person
- facilita indicative present singular
- facilitamos first-person indicative plural
- facilitais indicative plural present
- facilitam indicative plural present
- facilitava first-person imperfect indicative
- facilitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce facilitar?
- Brazil /fa.si.liˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fa.si.liˈta(h)]
- /fa.si.liˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to facilitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facilitar in Portuguese?
facilitar appears 19 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).