Skip to main content

petanca

Portuguese, noun/peˈtɐ̃.kɐ/

petanca is spelled P-E-T-A-N-C-A (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). Petanca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pétanque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does petanca mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepétanque

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of petanca

  • petancas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce petanca?

  • Brazil /peˈtɐ̃.kɐ/
  • Portugal /pɨˈtɐ̃.kɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to petanca

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is petanca in Portuguese?

petanca 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).

What to look up after petanca