picotar
Portuguese, verb/pi.koˈta(ʁ)/
picotar is spelled P-I-C-O-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 129,832nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Picotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to chop (to cut into pieces)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar com o picotador”.
What does picotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chop (to cut into pieces)
- 2
to perforate paper
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar com o picotador 2. cortar ou rasgar em pequenos pedaços
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 picotar
- picoto first-person present singular
- picotei first-person preterite singular
- picotado participle past
- picotares infinitive second-person singular
- picotarmos first-person infinitive plural
- picotardes infinitive plural second-person
- picotarem infinitive plural third-person
- picotando gerund
- picotados masculine participle past
- picotada feminine participle past
- picotadas feminine participle past
- picotas indicative present second-person
- picota indicative present singular
- picotamos first-person indicative plural
- picotais indicative plural present
- picotam indicative plural present
- picotava first-person imperfect indicative
- picotavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce picotar?
- Brazil /pi.koˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pi.koˈta(h)]
- Portugal /pi.ku.ˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is picotar in Portuguese?
picotar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).