mistificar
Portuguese, verb/mis.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
mistificar is spelled M-I-S-T-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mistificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mystify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer (alguém) crer em mentira”.
What does mistificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mystify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer (alguém) crer em mentira
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 mistificar
- mistifico first-person present singular
- mistifiquei first-person preterite singular
- mistificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- mistificares infinitive second-person singular
- mistificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- mistificardes infinitive plural second-person
- mistificarem infinitive plural third-person
- mistificando gerund
- mistificados masculine participle past
- mistificada feminine participle past
- mistificadas feminine participle past
- mistificas indicative present second-person
- mistifica indicative present singular
- mistificamos first-person indicative plural
- mistificais indicative plural present
- mistificam indicative plural present
- mistificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mistificar?
- Brazil /mis.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [mis.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(h)]
- /mis.t͡ʃi.fiˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mistificar in Portuguese?
mistificar appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).