focalizar
Portuguese, verb/fo.ka.liˈza(ʁ)/
focalizar is spelled F-O-C-A-L-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Focalizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to focus (to cause light to converge at a single point)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “focar, enfocar”.
What does focalizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to focus (to cause light to converge at a single point)
- 2
to converge at a single point
- 3
to focus (to adjust the lens of an optical instrument)
- 4
to focus (to concentrate one’s attention)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. focar, enfocar 2. pôr em evidência; examinar, analisar
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 focalizar
- focalizo first-person present singular
- focalizei first-person preterite singular
- focalizado participle past
- focalizares infinitive second-person singular
- focalizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- focalizardes infinitive plural second-person
- focalizarem infinitive plural third-person
- focalizando gerund
- focalizados masculine participle past
- focalizada feminine participle past
- focalizadas feminine participle past
- focalizas indicative present second-person
- focaliza indicative present singular
- focalizamos first-person indicative plural
- focalizais indicative plural present
- focalizam indicative plural present
- focalizava first-person imperfect indicative
- focalizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce focalizar?
- Brazil /fo.ka.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fo.ka.liˈza(h)]
- /fo.ka.liˈza(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 focalizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is focalizar in Portuguese?
focalizar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).