petrificar
Portuguese, verb/pe.tɾi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
petrificar is spelled P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese, the 161,170th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Petrificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to petrify, to produce rigidity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “transformar em pedra”.
What does petrificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to petrify, to produce rigidity
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. transformar em pedra
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 petrificar
- petrifico first-person present singular
- petrifiquei first-person preterite singular
- petrificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- petrificares infinitive second-person singular
- petrificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- petrificardes infinitive plural second-person
- petrificarem infinitive plural third-person
- petrificando gerund
- petrificados masculine participle past
- petrificada feminine participle past
- petrificadas feminine participle past
- petrificas indicative present second-person
- petrifica indicative present singular
- petrificamos first-person indicative plural
- petrificais indicative plural present
- petrificam indicative plural present
- petrificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce petrificar?
- Brazil /pe.tɾi.fiˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pe.tɾi.fiˈka(h)]
- /pe.tɾi.fiˈka(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 petrificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is petrificar in Portuguese?
petrificar appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).