muriçoca
Portuguese, noun/mu.ɾiˈsɔ.kɐ/
muriçoca is spelled M-U-R-I-Ç-O-C-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muriçoca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “mosquito” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pernilongo”.
What does muriçoca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemosquito
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pernilongo
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 muriçoca
- muriçocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muriçoca?
- Brazil /mu.ɾiˈsɔ.kɐ/
- Portugal /mu.ɾiˈsɔ.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is muriçoca in Portuguese?
muriçoca appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).