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açúcar

Portuguese, noun

açúcar is spelled A-Ç-Ú-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,566th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Açúcar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sugar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, açucar is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância doce extraída da cana-de-açúcar, da beterraba, etc”.

What does açúcar mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesugar

  2. 2

    masculinesugar

noun

as açucar
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of açúcar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. substância doce extraída da cana-de-açúcar, da beterraba, etc 2. designação genérica dada a carboidratos de sabor doce e solúveis em água, como sacarose, frutose, glicose 3. suavidade, doçura 4. magnetismo sensual-sexual que atrai e cativa

verb: 1. sentar de cócoras, acocorar-se 2. agachar-se, esconder-se

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 açúcar

  • açúcares plural
  • açucre alternative dated dialectal
  • assucar alternative
  • açucar alternative
  • açucares plural
  • acucando gerund
  • acucado participle
  • acuco singular first-person indicative
  • acucas singular second-person indicative
  • acuca singular third-person indicative
  • acucamos plural first-person indicative
  • acucais plural second-person indicative
  • acucam plural third-person indicative
  • acucava singular first-person indicative
  • acucavas singular second-person indicative
  • acucávamos plural first-person indicative
  • acucáveis plural second-person indicative
  • acucavam plural third-person indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to açúcar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is açúcar in Portuguese?

açúcar appears 35 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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