coçar
Portuguese, verb
coçar is spelled C-O-Ç-A-R (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,930th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scratch (to rub a surface with a sharp object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its cedilla, cocar is a different word: “headdress used by the indigenous American peoples, especially ones…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esfregar com as unhas, ou com outro objeto, qualquer parte do corpo onde se sente comichão”.
What does coçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scratch (to rub a surface with a sharp object)
- 2
to itch
noun
- 1
masculineheaddress used by the indigenous American peoples, especially ones used by Brazilian Indians and war bonnets used by Great Plain Indians
- 2
masculinehelmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. esfregar com as unhas, ou com outro objeto, qualquer parte do corpo onde se sente comichão 2. bater 3. aplanar o chão nas salinas 4. não fazer coisa alguma, fazer nada
noun: 1. o mesmo que galinha-d'angola (Numida meleagris) 2. adorno para a cabeça, tipicamente usado por índios
verb: 1. espreitar
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 coçar
- coço first-person present singular
- cocei first-person preterite singular
- coçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- coçares infinitive second-person singular
- coçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- coçardes infinitive plural second-person
- coçarem infinitive plural third-person
- coçando gerund
- coçados masculine participle past
- coçada feminine participle past
- coçadas feminine participle past
- coças indicative present second-person
- coça indicative present singular
- coçamos first-person indicative plural
- coçais indicative plural present
- coçam indicative plural present
- coçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to coçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coçar in Portuguese?
coçar appears 1.8 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).