prospectar
Portuguese, verb
prospectar is spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 127,225th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prospectar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to prospect (to determine which minerals or metals are present in a location)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does prospectar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prospect (to determine which minerals or metals are present in a location)
- 2
to prospect (to evaluate the potentials of something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of prospectar
- prospecto first-person present singular
- prospectei first-person preterite singular
- prospectado participle past
- prospectares infinitive second-person singular
- prospectarmos first-person infinitive plural
- prospectardes infinitive plural second-person
- prospectarem infinitive plural third-person
- prospectando gerund
- prospectados masculine participle past
- prospectada feminine participle past
- prospectadas feminine participle past
- prospectas indicative present second-person
- prospecta indicative present singular
- prospectamos first-person indicative plural
- prospectais indicative plural present
- prospectam indicative plural present
- prospectava first-person imperfect indicative
- prospectavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prospectar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prospectar in Portuguese?
prospectar appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).