rectificar
Portuguese, verb
rectificar is spelled R-E-C-T-I-F-I-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 95,562nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rectificar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retificar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide retificar”.
What does rectificar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retificar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vide retificar
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 rectificar
- rectifico first-person present singular
- rectifiquei first-person preterite singular
- rectificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- rectificares infinitive second-person singular
- rectificarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rectificardes infinitive plural second-person
- rectificarem infinitive plural third-person
- rectificando gerund
- rectificados masculine participle past
- rectificada feminine participle past
- rectificadas feminine participle past
- rectificas indicative present second-person
- rectifica indicative present singular
- rectificamos first-person indicative plural
- rectificais indicative plural present
- rectificam indicative plural present
- rectificava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is rectificar in Portuguese?
rectificar appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).