segregar
Portuguese, verb/se.ɡɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/
segregar is spelled S-E-G-R-E-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Segregar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to secrete (to slowly leak a substance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “separar”.
What does segregar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to secrete (to slowly leak a substance)
- 2
to segregate (to keep apart)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. separar 2. expelir
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 segregar
- segrego first-person present singular
- segreguei first-person preterite singular
- segregado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- segregares infinitive second-person singular
- segregarmos first-person infinitive plural
- segregardes infinitive plural second-person
- segregarem infinitive plural third-person
- segregando gerund
- segregados masculine participle past
- segregada feminine participle past
- segregadas feminine participle past
- segregas indicative present second-person
- segrega indicative present singular
- segregamos first-person indicative plural
- segregais indicative plural present
- segregam indicative plural present
- segregava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce segregar?
- Brazil /se.ɡɾeˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [se.ɡɾeˈɡa(h)]
- /se.ɡɾeˈɡa(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 segregar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is segregar in Portuguese?
segregar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).