seleccionar
Portuguese, verb
seleccionar is spelled S-E-L-E-C-C-I-O-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seleccionar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of selecionar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vide selecionar”.
What does seleccionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of selecionar; 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 selecionar
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 seleccionar
- selecciono first-person present singular
- seleccionei first-person preterite singular
- seleccionado participle past
- seleccionares infinitive second-person singular
- seleccionarmos first-person infinitive plural
- seleccionardes infinitive plural second-person
- seleccionarem infinitive plural third-person
- seleccionando gerund
- seleccionados masculine participle past
- seleccionada feminine participle past
- seleccionadas feminine participle past
- seleccionas indicative present second-person
- selecciona indicative present singular
- seleccionamos first-person indicative plural
- seleccionais indicative plural present
- seleccionam indicative plural present
- seleccionava first-person imperfect indicative
- seleccionavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is seleccionar in Portuguese?
seleccionar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).