Skip to main content

mutar

Portuguese, verb/muˈta(ʁ)/

mutar is spelled M-U-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 96,549th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mutar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mutate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “emudecer, silenciar”.

What does mutar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to mutate

verb

  1. 1

    Brazilcolloquialto mute

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. emudecer, silenciar

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 mutar

  • muto first-person present singular
  • mutei first-person preterite singular
  • mutado participle past
  • mutares infinitive second-person singular
  • mutarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • mutardes infinitive plural second-person
  • mutarem infinitive plural third-person
  • mutando gerund
  • mutados masculine participle past
  • mutada feminine participle past
  • mutadas feminine participle past
  • mutas indicative present second-person
  • muta indicative present singular
  • mutamos first-person indicative plural
  • mutais indicative plural present
  • mutam indicative plural present
  • mutava first-person imperfect indicative
  • mutavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce mutar?

  • Brazil /muˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [muˈta(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to mutar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is mutar in Portuguese?

mutar appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after mutar