formigar
Portuguese, verb/foʁ.miˈɡa(ʁ)/
formigar is spelled F-O-R-M-I-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 123,299th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Formigar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to formicate; to tingle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does formigar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to formicate; to tingle
- 2
to be swarming or teeming with something
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of formigar
- formigo first-person present singular
- formiguei first-person preterite singular
- formigado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- formigares infinitive second-person singular
- formigarmos first-person infinitive plural
- formigardes infinitive plural second-person
- formigarem infinitive plural third-person
- formigando gerund
- formigados masculine participle past
- formigada feminine participle past
- formigadas feminine participle past
- formigas indicative present second-person
- formiga indicative present singular
- formigamos first-person indicative plural
- formigais indicative plural present
- formigam indicative plural present
- formigava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce formigar?
- Brazil /foʁ.miˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [foɦ.miˈɡa(h)]
- Brazil /fuʁ.miˈɡa(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 formigar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is formigar in Portuguese?
formigar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).