bancar
Portuguese, verb/bɐ̃ˈka(ʁ)/
bancar is spelled B-A-N-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,840th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bancar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fund, to finance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “financiar, pagar os custos”.
What does bancar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fund, to finance
- 2
colloquialto behave like [some kind of person], to play
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. financiar, pagar os custos 2. comportar-se como se fosse 3. ser induzido em uma situação a tornar-se nela
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 bancar
- banco first-person present singular
- banquei first-person preterite singular
- bancado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- bancares infinitive second-person singular
- bancarmos first-person infinitive plural
- bancardes infinitive plural second-person
- bancarem infinitive plural third-person
- bancando gerund
- bancados masculine participle past
- bancada feminine participle past
- bancadas feminine participle past
- bancas indicative present second-person
- banca indicative present singular
- bancamos first-person indicative plural
- bancais indicative plural present
- bancam indicative plural present
- bancava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bancar?
- Brazil /bɐ̃ˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [bɐ̃ˈka(h)]
- /bɐ̃ˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bancar in Portuguese?
bancar appears 4.7 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).