balouçar
Portuguese, verb/ba.lo(w)ˈsa(ʁ)/
balouçar is spelled B-A-L-O-U-Ç-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese, the 207,250th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balouçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to swing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que balançar”.
What does balouçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swing
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. o mesmo que balançar
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 balouçar
- balouço first-person present singular
- baloucei first-person preterite singular
- balouçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- balouçares infinitive second-person singular
- balouçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- balouçardes infinitive plural second-person
- balouçarem infinitive plural third-person
- balouçando gerund
- balouçados masculine participle past
- balouçada feminine participle past
- balouçadas feminine participle past
- balouças indicative present second-person
- balouça indicative present singular
- balouçamos first-person indicative plural
- balouçais indicative plural present
- balouçam indicative plural present
- balouçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balouçar?
- Brazil /ba.lo(w)ˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ba.lo(ʊ̯)ˈsa(h)]
- /ba.lo(w)ˈsa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is balouçar in Portuguese?
balouçar appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).