musicar
Portuguese, verb/mu.ziˈka(ʁ)/
musicar is spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 122,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Musicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to musicalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cantar, trautear”.
What does musicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to musicalise
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cantar, trautear 2. tocar instrumento musical
verb: 1. primeira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo musicar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do futuro do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo musicar 3. infinitivo pessoal da primeira pessoa do singular do verbo musicar 4. infinitivo pessoal da terceira pessoa do singular do verbo musicar
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 musicar
- musico first-person present singular
- musiquei first-person preterite singular
- musicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- musicares infinitive second-person singular
- musicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- musicardes infinitive plural second-person
- musicarem infinitive plural third-person
- musicando gerund
- musicados masculine participle past
- musicada feminine participle past
- musicadas feminine participle past
- musicas indicative present second-person
- musica indicative present singular
- musicamos first-person indicative plural
- musicais indicative plural present
- musicam indicative plural present
- musicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce musicar?
- Brazil /mu.ziˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [mu.ziˈka(h)]
- Portugal /mu.zi.ˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is musicar in Portuguese?
musicar 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).