sibilar
Portuguese, verb/si.biˈla(ʁ)/
sibilar is spelled S-I-B-I-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese, the 187,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sibilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hiss; to sibilate (to make a hissing sound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assobiar; assoprar produzindo som alto e forte”.
What does sibilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hiss; to sibilate (to make a hissing sound)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. assobiar; assoprar produzindo som alto e forte
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 sibilar
- sibilo first-person present singular
- sibilei first-person preterite singular
- sibilado participle past
- sibilares infinitive second-person singular
- sibilarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sibilardes infinitive plural second-person
- sibilarem infinitive plural third-person
- sibilando gerund
- sibilados masculine participle past
- sibilada feminine participle past
- sibiladas feminine participle past
- sibilas indicative present second-person
- sibila indicative present singular
- sibilamos first-person indicative plural
- sibilais indicative plural present
- sibilam indicative plural present
- sibilava first-person imperfect indicative
- sibilavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sibilar?
- Brazil /si.biˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [si.biˈla(h)]
- /si.biˈla(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 sibilar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sibilar in Portuguese?
sibilar appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).