pilotar
Portuguese, verb/pi.loˈta(ʁ)/
pilotar is spelled P-I-L-O-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,687th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pilotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pilot (to control an aircraft or watercraft)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “governar, como piloto”.
What does pilotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pilot (to control an aircraft or watercraft)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. governar, como piloto 2. exercer as funções de piloto
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 pilotar
- piloto first-person present singular
- pilotei first-person preterite singular
- pilotado participle past
- pilotares infinitive second-person singular
- pilotarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pilotardes infinitive plural second-person
- pilotarem infinitive plural third-person
- pilotando gerund
- pilotados masculine participle past
- pilotada feminine participle past
- pilotadas feminine participle past
- pilotas indicative present second-person
- pilota indicative present singular
- pilotamos first-person indicative plural
- pilotais indicative plural present
- pilotam indicative plural present
- pilotava first-person imperfect indicative
- pilotavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pilotar?
- Brazil /pi.loˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pi.loˈta(h)]
- Portugal /pi.lu.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 pilotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pilotar in Portuguese?
pilotar appears 2.1 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).