raciocinar
Portuguese, verb/ʁa.si.o.siˈna(ʁ)/
raciocinar is spelled R-A-C-I-O-C-I-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,281st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raciocinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to reason” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer raciocínios”.
What does raciocinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reason
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer raciocínios 2. apresentar razões 3. calcular 4. ponderar
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 raciocinar
- raciocino first-person present singular
- raciocinei first-person preterite singular
- raciocinado participle past
- raciocinares infinitive second-person singular
- raciocinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- raciocinardes infinitive plural second-person
- raciocinarem infinitive plural third-person
- raciocinando gerund
- raciocinados masculine participle past
- raciocinada feminine participle past
- raciocinadas feminine participle past
- raciocinas indicative present second-person
- raciocina indicative present singular
- raciocinamos first-person indicative plural
- raciocinais indicative plural present
- raciocinam indicative plural present
- raciocinava first-person imperfect indicative
- raciocinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce raciocinar?
- Brazil /ʁa.si.o.siˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ha.si.o.siˈna(h)]
- Brazil /ʁa.sjo.siˈna(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 raciocinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raciocinar in Portuguese?
raciocinar appears 1.1 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).