piorar
Portuguese, verb/pi.oˈɾa(ʁ)/
piorar is spelled P-I-O-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,626th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to worsen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ficar pior”.
What does piorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to worsen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ficar pior
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 piorar
- pioro first-person present singular
- piorei first-person preterite singular
- piorado participle past
- piorares infinitive second-person singular
- piorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- piorardes infinitive plural second-person
- piorarem infinitive plural third-person
- piorando gerund
- piorados masculine participle past
- piorada feminine participle past
- pioradas feminine participle past
- pioras indicative present second-person
- piora indicative present singular
- pioramos first-person indicative plural
- piorais indicative plural present
- pioram indicative plural present
- piorava first-person imperfect indicative
- pioravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piorar?
- Brazil /pi.oˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pi.oˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /pjoˈɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piorar in Portuguese?
piorar appears 11 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).