fervilhar
Portuguese, verb/feʁ.viˈʎa(ʁ)/
fervilhar is spelled F-E-R-V-I-L-H-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fervilhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to be swarming or teeming with something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ferver durante mais tempo do comum”.
What does fervilhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be swarming or teeming with something
- 2
to boil (to cook in boiling water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ferver durante mais tempo do comum 2. abundar, surgir em abundância 3. estar agitado, mover-se continuamente
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 fervilhar
- fervilho first-person present singular
- fervilhei first-person preterite singular
- fervilhado participle past
- fervilhares infinitive second-person singular
- fervilharmos first-person infinitive plural
- fervilhardes infinitive plural second-person
- fervilharem infinitive plural third-person
- fervilhando gerund
- fervilhados masculine participle past
- fervilhada feminine participle past
- fervilhadas feminine participle past
- fervilhas indicative present second-person
- fervilha indicative present singular
- fervilhamos first-person indicative plural
- fervilhais indicative plural present
- fervilham indicative plural present
- fervilhava first-person imperfect indicative
- fervilhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fervilhar?
- Brazil /feʁ.viˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [feɦ.viˈʎa(h)]
- /feɾ.viˈʎa(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 fervilhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fervilhar in Portuguese?
fervilhar 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).