pinçar
Portuguese, verb/pĩˈsa(ʁ)/
pinçar is spelled P-I-N-Ç-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 141,055th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tweeze (to pluck or grasp using tweezers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pinçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tweeze (to pluck or grasp using tweezers)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pinçar
- pinço first-person present singular
- pincei first-person preterite singular
- pinçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- pinçares infinitive second-person singular
- pinçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pinçardes infinitive plural second-person
- pinçarem infinitive plural third-person
- pinçando gerund
- pinçados masculine participle past
- pinçada feminine participle past
- pinçadas feminine participle past
- pinças indicative present second-person
- pinça indicative present singular
- pinçamos first-person indicative plural
- pinçais indicative plural present
- pinçam indicative plural present
- pinçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pinçar?
- Brazil /pĩˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pĩˈsa(h)]
- /pĩˈsa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pinçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pinçar in Portuguese?
pinçar appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).