cutucar
Portuguese, verb/ku.tuˈka(ʁ)/
cutucar is spelled C-U-T-U-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,230th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cutucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to poke (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tocar, mexer, encostar”.
What does cutucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto poke (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick)
- 2
Brazilcolloquialto poke (to notify another user)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tocar, mexer, encostar 2. provocar, provocar a fúria
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 cutucar
- cutuco first-person present singular
- cutuquei first-person preterite singular
- cutucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cutucares infinitive second-person singular
- cutucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cutucardes infinitive plural second-person
- cutucarem infinitive plural third-person
- cutucando gerund
- cutucados masculine participle past
- cutucada feminine participle past
- cutucadas feminine participle past
- cutucas indicative present second-person
- cutuca indicative present singular
- cutucamos first-person indicative plural
- cutucais indicative plural present
- cutucam indicative plural present
- cutucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cutucar?
- Brazil /ku.tuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ku.tuˈka(h)]
- /ku.tuˈka(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 cutucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cutucar in Portuguese?
cutucar 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).