fofocar
Portuguese, verb/fo.foˈka(ʁ)/
fofocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gossip (to talk about someone else's private or personal business)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer fofoca (falar sobre assuntos privados ou pessoais de outra pessoa)”.
What does fofocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto gossip (to talk about someone else's private or personal business)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer fofoca (falar sobre assuntos privados ou pessoais de outra pessoa)
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 fofocar
- fofoco first-person present singular
- fofoquei first-person preterite singular
- fofocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- fofocares infinitive second-person singular
- fofocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fofocardes infinitive plural second-person
- fofocarem infinitive plural third-person
- fofocando gerund
- fofocados masculine participle past
- fofocada feminine participle past
- fofocadas feminine participle past
- fofocas indicative present second-person
- fofoca indicative present singular
- fofocamos first-person indicative plural
- fofocais indicative plural present
- fofocam indicative plural present
- fofocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fofocar?
- Brazil /fo.foˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fo.foˈka(h)]
- /fo.foˈka(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 fofocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fofocar in Portuguese?
fofocar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).