travestir
Portuguese, verb/tɾa.vesˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
travestir is spelled T-R-A-V-E-S-T-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Travestir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cross-dress (wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vestir para se passar por outro gênero”.
What does travestir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cross-dress (wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex)
- 2
to disguise, masquerade
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vestir para se passar por outro gênero 2. alterar a aparência 3. falsificar, tornar irreconhecível
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 travestir
- travisto first-person present singular
- traveste present singular third-person
- travesti first-person preterite singular
- travestido participle past
- i-e alternation
- travestires infinitive second-person singular
- travestirmos first-person infinitive plural
- travestirdes infinitive plural second-person
- travestirem infinitive plural third-person
- travestindo gerund
- travestidos masculine participle past
- travestida feminine participle past
- travestidas feminine participle past
- travestes indicative present second-person
- travestimos first-person indicative plural
- travestis indicative plural present
- travestem indicative plural present
- travestia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce travestir?
- Brazil /tɾa.vesˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾa.vesˈt͡ʃi(h)]
- /tɾa.vesˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is travestir in Portuguese?
travestir appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).