espocar
Portuguese, verb/is.poˈka(ʁ)/
espocar is spelled E-S-P-O-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese, the 215,563rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “alternative form of espoucar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “explodir, arrebentar com pedaços voando para todos os lados”.
What does espocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
alternative form of espoucar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. explodir, arrebentar com pedaços voando para 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 espocar
- espoco first-person present singular
- espoquei first-person preterite singular
- espocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- espocares infinitive second-person singular
- espocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- espocardes infinitive plural second-person
- espocarem infinitive plural third-person
- espocando gerund
- espocados masculine participle past
- espocada feminine participle past
- espocadas feminine participle past
- espocas indicative present second-person
- espoca indicative present singular
- espocamos first-person indicative plural
- espocais indicative plural present
- espocam indicative plural present
- espocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce espocar?
- Brazil /is.poˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.poˈka(h)]
- Brazil /es.poˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is espocar in Portuguese?
espocar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).