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ocultar

Portuguese, verb/o.kuwˈta(ʁ)/

ocultar is spelled O-C-U-L-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,758th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ocultar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to conceal (to hide (something))” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não deixar ver; não mostrar; não revelar”.

What does ocultar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to conceal (to hide (something))

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. não deixar ver; não mostrar; não revelar 2. calar; disfarçar; dissimular; encobrir; esconder; guardar; sonegar; tapar; 3. esconder-se; retrair-se

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 ocultar

  • oculto first-person present singular
  • ocultei first-person preterite singular
  • ocultado participle past
  • ocultares infinitive second-person singular
  • ocultarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • ocultardes infinitive plural second-person
  • ocultarem infinitive plural third-person
  • ocultando gerund
  • ocultados masculine participle past
  • ocultada feminine participle past
  • ocultadas feminine participle past
  • ocultas indicative present second-person
  • oculta indicative present singular
  • ocultamos first-person indicative plural
  • ocultais indicative plural present
  • ocultam indicative plural present
  • ocultava first-person imperfect indicative
  • ocultavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce ocultar?

  • Brazil /o.kuwˈta(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [o.kuʊ̯ˈta(h)]
  • Portugal /ɔ.kuɫ.ˈtaɾ/

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

English words that translate to ocultar

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

How common is ocultar in Portuguese?

ocultar appears 3.5 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).

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