higienizar
Portuguese, verb/i.ʒi.e.niˈza(ʁ)/
higienizar is spelled H-I-G-I-E-N-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Higienizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sanitize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar higiênico”.
What does higienizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sanitize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar higiênico
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 higienizar
- higienizo first-person present singular
- higienizei first-person preterite singular
- higienizado participle past
- higienizares infinitive second-person singular
- higienizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- higienizardes infinitive plural second-person
- higienizarem infinitive plural third-person
- higienizando gerund
- higienizados masculine participle past
- higienizada feminine participle past
- higienizadas feminine participle past
- higienizas indicative present second-person
- higieniza indicative present singular
- higienizamos first-person indicative plural
- higienizais indicative plural present
- higienizam indicative plural present
- higienizava first-person imperfect indicative
- higienizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce higienizar?
- Brazil /i.ʒi.e.niˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.ʒi.e.niˈza(h)]
- Brazil /i.ʒje.niˈza(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 higienizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is higienizar in Portuguese?
higienizar 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).