falsificar
Portuguese, verb/faw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
falsificar is spelled F-A-L-S-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,826th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Falsificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to falsify (to alter so as to be false)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “imitar ou alterar com fraude”.
What does falsificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to falsify (to alter so as to be false)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. imitar ou alterar com fraude 2. adulterar 3. contrafazer
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 falsificar
- falsifico first-person present singular
- falsifiquei first-person preterite singular
- falsificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- falsificares infinitive second-person singular
- falsificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- falsificardes infinitive plural second-person
- falsificarem infinitive plural third-person
- falsificando gerund
- falsificados masculine participle past
- falsificada feminine participle past
- falsificadas feminine participle past
- falsificas indicative present second-person
- falsifica indicative present singular
- falsificamos first-person indicative plural
- falsificais indicative plural present
- falsificam indicative plural present
- falsificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce falsificar?
- Brazil /faw.si.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [faʊ̯.si.fiˈka(h)]
- /faw.si.fiˈka(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 falsificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is falsificar in Portuguese?
falsificar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).