faiscar
Portuguese, verb/fa.isˈka(ʁ)/
faiscar is spelled F-A-I-S-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese, the 197,229th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faiscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to spark (to emit sparks)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “saltarem pequenos fragmentos incandescentes, lançar faíscas”.
What does faiscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spark (to emit sparks)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. saltarem pequenos fragmentos incandescentes, lançar faíscas 2. procurar grãos de ouros 3. cintilar
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 faiscar
- faísco first-person present singular
- faisquei first-person preterite singular
- faiscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- faiscares infinitive second-person singular
- faiscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- faiscardes infinitive plural second-person
- faiscarem infinitive plural third-person
- faiscando gerund
- faiscados masculine participle past
- faiscada feminine participle past
- faiscadas feminine participle past
- faíscas indicative present second-person
- faísca indicative present singular
- faiscamos first-person indicative plural
- faiscais indicative plural present
- faíscam indicative plural present
- faiscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faiscar?
- Brazil /fa.isˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fa.isˈka(h)]
- /fa.isˈka(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 faiscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faiscar in Portuguese?
faiscar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).