crepitar
Portuguese, verb/kɾe.piˈta(ʁ)/
crepitar is spelled C-R-E-P-I-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 122,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crepitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to crepitate; to crackle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer crepitação”.
What does crepitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crepitate; to crackle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer crepitação 2. estalar expelindo faíscas (como acontece com a lenha ou quando se atira sal para o lume) 3. imitar aqueles estalidos; estralejar
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 crepitar
- crepito first-person present singular
- crepitei first-person preterite singular
- crepitado participle past
- crepitares infinitive second-person singular
- crepitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- crepitardes infinitive plural second-person
- crepitarem infinitive plural third-person
- crepitando gerund
- crepitados masculine participle past
- crepitada feminine participle past
- crepitadas feminine participle past
- crepitas indicative present second-person
- crepita indicative present singular
- crepitamos first-person indicative plural
- crepitais indicative plural present
- crepitam indicative plural present
- crepitava first-person imperfect indicative
- crepitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crepitar?
- Brazil /kɾe.piˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kɾe.piˈta(h)]
- /kɾe.piˈta(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 crepitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crepitar in Portuguese?
crepitar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).