perca
Portuguese, noun
perca is spelled P-E-R-C-A (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,459th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “perch (fish in the genus Perca)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of perder. With an accent, pêrca is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peixe de água doce, da família dos Percídeos (Percidae), de carne muito apreciada”.
What does perca mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineperch (fish in the genus Perca)
noun
- 1
feminineproscribedsynonym of perda
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of perca
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peixe de água doce, da família dos Percídeos (Percidae), de carne muito apreciada 2. perda
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 perca
- percas plural
- pêrca alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to perca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perca in Portuguese?
perca appears 19 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).