espicaçar
Portuguese, verb/is.pi.kaˈsa(ʁ)/
espicaçar is spelled E-S-P-I-C-A-Ç-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Portuguese, the 167,801st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espicaçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to beak” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “picar com instrumento agudo”.
What does espicaçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beak
- 2
to make holes in
- 3
to afflict, to torture, to provoke
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. picar com instrumento agudo
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 espicaçar
- espicaço first-person present singular
- espicacei first-person preterite singular
- espicaçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- espicaçares infinitive second-person singular
- espicaçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- espicaçardes infinitive plural second-person
- espicaçarem infinitive plural third-person
- espicaçando gerund
- espicaçados masculine participle past
- espicaçada feminine participle past
- espicaçadas feminine participle past
- espicaças indicative present second-person
- espicaça indicative present singular
- espicaçamos first-person indicative plural
- espicaçais indicative plural present
- espicaçam indicative plural present
- espicaçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce espicaçar?
- Brazil /is.pi.kaˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.pi.kaˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /es.pi.kaˈsa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is espicaçar in Portuguese?
espicaçar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).