ruborizar
Portuguese, verb/ʁu.bo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
ruborizar is spelled R-U-B-O-R-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruborizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to blush (to redden in the face from excitement or embarrassment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar vermelho”.
What does ruborizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blush (to redden in the face from excitement or embarrassment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar vermelho 2. tornar rubro 3. envergonhar-se 4. corar
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 ruborizar
- ruborizo first-person present singular
- ruborizei first-person preterite singular
- ruborizado participle past
- ruborizares infinitive second-person singular
- ruborizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ruborizardes infinitive plural second-person
- ruborizarem infinitive plural third-person
- ruborizando gerund
- ruborizados masculine participle past
- ruborizada feminine participle past
- ruborizadas feminine participle past
- ruborizas indicative present second-person
- ruboriza indicative present singular
- ruborizamos first-person indicative plural
- ruborizais indicative plural present
- ruborizam indicative plural present
- ruborizava first-person imperfect indicative
- ruborizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruborizar?
- Brazil /ʁu.bo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hu.bo.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /ʁu.bo.ɾiˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ruborizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ruborizar in Portuguese?
ruborizar appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).