inicializar
Portuguese, verb/i.ni.si.a.liˈza(ʁ)/
inicializar is spelled I-N-I-C-I-A-L-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inicializar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to initialize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “determinar valores iniciais para contadores-chaves, endereços ou conteúdos de memória, ou zerá-los, no início…”.
What does inicializar mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto initialize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. determinar valores iniciais para contadores-chaves, endereços ou conteúdos de memória, ou zerá-los, no início ou em pontos preestabelecidos de uma operação, rotina ou programa de computador 2. ligar o computador, preparando-o para o uso 3. preparar para a utilização (meios de armazenamento, programas etc)
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 inicializar
- inicializo first-person present singular
- inicializei first-person preterite singular
- inicializado participle past
- inicializares infinitive second-person singular
- inicializarmos first-person infinitive plural
- inicializardes infinitive plural second-person
- inicializarem infinitive plural third-person
- inicializando gerund
- inicializados masculine participle past
- inicializada feminine participle past
- inicializadas feminine participle past
- inicializas indicative present second-person
- inicializa indicative present singular
- inicializamos first-person indicative plural
- inicializais indicative plural present
- inicializam indicative plural present
- inicializava first-person imperfect indicative
- inicializavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inicializar?
- Brazil /i.ni.si.a.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [i.ni.si.a.liˈza(h)]
- Brazil /i.ni.sja.liˈza(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 inicializar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inicializar in Portuguese?
inicializar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).