trilhar
Portuguese, verb/tɾiˈʎa(ʁ)/
trilhar is spelled T-R-I-L-H-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 39,050th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trilhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to thresh grain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “debulhar (cereais)”.
What does trilhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thresh grain
- 2
to reduce to tiny fragments
- 3
to mill, grind
- 4
to open a passage or course
- 5
to go through a certain path
- 6
to get stuck, to jam
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. debulhar (cereais) 2. pisar 3. entalar 4. seguir
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 trilhar
- trilho first-person present singular
- trilhei first-person preterite singular
- trilhado participle past
- trilhares infinitive second-person singular
- trilharmos first-person infinitive plural
- trilhardes infinitive plural second-person
- trilharem infinitive plural third-person
- trilhando gerund
- trilhados masculine participle past
- trilhada feminine participle past
- trilhadas feminine participle past
- trilhas indicative present second-person
- trilha indicative present singular
- trilhamos first-person indicative plural
- trilhais indicative plural present
- trilham indicative plural present
- trilhava first-person imperfect indicative
- trilhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trilhar?
- Brazil /tɾiˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾiˈʎa(h)]
- /tɾiˈʎa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trilhar in Portuguese?
trilhar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).