vulgarizar
Portuguese, verb/vuw.ɡa.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
vulgarizar is spelled V-U-L-G-A-R-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese, the 156,173rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vulgarizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vulgarise (to make something vulgar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar vulgar”.
What does vulgarizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vulgarise (to make something vulgar)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar vulgar 2. propagar 3. divulgar 4. (figuradamente)
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 vulgarizar
- vulgarizo first-person present singular
- vulgarizei first-person preterite singular
- vulgarizado participle past
- vulgarizares infinitive second-person singular
- vulgarizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- vulgarizardes infinitive plural second-person
- vulgarizarem infinitive plural third-person
- vulgarizando gerund
- vulgarizados masculine participle past
- vulgarizada feminine participle past
- vulgarizadas feminine participle past
- vulgarizas indicative present second-person
- vulgariza indicative present singular
- vulgarizamos first-person indicative plural
- vulgarizais indicative plural present
- vulgarizam indicative plural present
- vulgarizava first-person imperfect indicative
- vulgarizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vulgarizar?
- Brazil /vuw.ɡa.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [vuʊ̯.ɡa.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /vuw.ɡa.ɾiˈza(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 vulgarizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vulgarizar in Portuguese?
vulgarizar appears about once in every 29 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).