legalizar
Portuguese, verb/le.ɡa.liˈza(ʁ)/
legalizar is spelled L-E-G-A-L-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,882nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Legalizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to legalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar legal”.
What does legalizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to legalize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar legal
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 legalizar
- legalizo first-person present singular
- legalizei first-person preterite singular
- legalizado participle past
- legalizares infinitive second-person singular
- legalizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- legalizardes infinitive plural second-person
- legalizarem infinitive plural third-person
- legalizando gerund
- legalizados masculine participle past
- legalizada feminine participle past
- legalizadas feminine participle past
- legalizas indicative present second-person
- legaliza indicative present singular
- legalizamos first-person indicative plural
- legalizais indicative plural present
- legalizam indicative plural present
- legalizava first-person imperfect indicative
- legalizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce legalizar?
- Brazil /le.ɡa.liˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [le.ɡa.liˈza(h)]
- /le.ɡa.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 legalizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is legalizar in Portuguese?
legalizar appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).