cercar
Portuguese, verb/seʁˈka(ʁ)/
cercar is spelled C-E-R-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 25,237th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cercar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to besiege” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr cerco a, sitiar”.
What does cercar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to besiege
- 2
to surround
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr cerco a, sitiar 2. pôr cerca a, murar 3. rodear 4. perseguir por todos os lados
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 cercar
- cerco first-person present singular
- cerquei first-person preterite singular
- cercado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cercares infinitive second-person singular
- cercarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cercardes infinitive plural second-person
- cercarem infinitive plural third-person
- cercando gerund
- cercados masculine participle past
- cercada feminine participle past
- cercadas feminine participle past
- cercas indicative present second-person
- cerca indicative present singular
- cercamos first-person indicative plural
- cercais indicative plural present
- cercam indicative plural present
- cercava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cercar?
- Brazil /seʁˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sehˈka(h)]
- /seɾˈka(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 cercar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cercar in Portuguese?
cercar appears 1.6 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).