carcará
Portuguese, noun
carcará is spelled C-A-R-C-A-R-Á (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carcará is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular future indicative of carcar. Without its accent, carcara is a different word: “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of carcar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ave falconídea de porte médio (nome científico: Polyborus plancus ou Caracara cheriway)”.
What does carcará mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesouthern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)
- 2
masculinecaracara (any of several South American birds of prey)
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of carcar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of carcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ave falconídea de porte médio (nome científico: Polyborus plancus ou Caracara cheriway)
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 carcará
- carcarás plural
- caracará alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to carcará
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carcará in Portuguese?
carcará appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).