refutar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.fuˈta(ʁ)/
refutar is spelled R-E-F-U-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 31,685th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Refutar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to refute or debunk (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “combater com argumentos que provam o contrário”.
What does refutar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refute or debunk (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. combater com argumentos que provam o contrário
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 refutar
- refuto first-person present singular
- refutei first-person preterite singular
- refutado participle past
- refutares infinitive second-person singular
- refutarmos first-person infinitive plural
- refutardes infinitive plural second-person
- refutarem infinitive plural third-person
- refutando gerund
- refutados masculine participle past
- refutada feminine participle past
- refutadas feminine participle past
- refutas indicative present second-person
- refuta indicative present singular
- refutamos first-person indicative plural
- refutais indicative plural present
- refutam indicative plural present
- refutava first-person imperfect indicative
- refutavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce refutar?
- Brazil /ʁe.fuˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.fuˈta(h)]
- Portugal /Rɨ.fu.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 refutar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is refutar in Portuguese?
refutar 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).