mordiscar
Portuguese, verb/moʁ.d͡ʒisˈka(ʁ)/
mordiscar is spelled M-O-R-D-I-S-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mordiscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to nibble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “morder levemente várias vezes”.
What does mordiscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to nibble
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. morder levemente várias vezes
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 mordiscar
- mordisco first-person present singular
- mordisquei first-person preterite singular
- mordiscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- mordiscares infinitive second-person singular
- mordiscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- mordiscardes infinitive plural second-person
- mordiscarem infinitive plural third-person
- mordiscando gerund
- mordiscados masculine participle past
- mordiscada feminine participle past
- mordiscadas feminine participle past
- mordiscas indicative present second-person
- mordisca indicative present singular
- mordiscamos first-person indicative plural
- mordiscais indicative plural present
- mordiscam indicative plural present
- mordiscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mordiscar?
- Brazil /moʁ.d͡ʒisˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [moɦ.d͡ʒisˈka(h)]
- Portugal /muɾ.diʃ.ˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mordiscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mordiscar in Portuguese?
mordiscar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).