estacar
Portuguese, verb/is.taˈka(ʁ)/
estacar is spelled E-S-T-A-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estacar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stake (fasten, support, or defend with stakes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr estacas; estear”.
What does estacar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stake (fasten, support, or defend with stakes)
- 2
to stop or interrupt suddenly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr estacas; estear 2. deter, imobilizar 3. estar na perplexidade 4. deter-se repentinamente
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 estacar
- estaco first-person present singular
- estaquei first-person preterite singular
- estacado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- estacares infinitive second-person singular
- estacarmos first-person infinitive plural
- estacardes infinitive plural second-person
- estacarem infinitive plural third-person
- estacando gerund
- estacados masculine participle past
- estacada feminine participle past
- estacadas feminine participle past
- estacas indicative present second-person
- estaca indicative present singular
- estacamos first-person indicative plural
- estacais indicative plural present
- estacam indicative plural present
- estacava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estacar?
- Brazil /is.taˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.taˈka(h)]
- Brazil /es.taˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to estacar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estacar in Portuguese?
estacar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).