voltear
Portuguese, verb/vow.teˈa(ʁ)/
voltear is spelled V-O-L-T-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Voltear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rotate, turn, veer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does voltear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rotate, turn, veer
- 2
to flutter
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of voltear
- volteio first-person present singular
- volteei first-person preterite singular
- volteado participle past
- volteares infinitive second-person singular
- voltearmos first-person infinitive plural
- volteardes infinitive plural second-person
- voltearem infinitive plural third-person
- volteando gerund
- volteados masculine participle past
- volteada feminine participle past
- volteadas feminine participle past
- volteias indicative present second-person
- volteia indicative present singular
- volteamos first-person indicative plural
- volteais indicative plural present
- volteiam indicative plural present
- volteava first-person imperfect indicative
- volteavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce voltear?
- Brazil /vow.teˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [voʊ̯.teˈa(h)]
- Brazil /vow.t͡ʃiˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to voltear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is voltear in Portuguese?
voltear appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).