piscar
Portuguese, verb/pisˈka(ʁ)/
piscar is spelled P-I-S-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,037th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to blink (to close and reopen both eyes quickly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de fechar e abrir rapidamente os olhos”.
What does piscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to blink (to close and reopen both eyes quickly)
- 2
to wink (To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion)
- 3
to flash (To (cause to) shine intermittently)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ação de fechar e abrir rapidamente os olhos 2. fazer sinal de luzes acendendo e apagando repetida e rapidamente
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 piscar
- pisco first-person present singular
- pisquei first-person preterite singular
- piscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- piscares infinitive second-person singular
- piscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- piscardes infinitive plural second-person
- piscarem infinitive plural third-person
- piscando gerund
- piscados masculine participle past
- piscada feminine participle past
- piscadas feminine participle past
- piscas indicative present second-person
- pisca indicative present singular
- piscamos first-person indicative plural
- piscais indicative plural present
- piscam indicative plural present
- piscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piscar?
- Brazil /pisˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pisˈka(h)]
- /pisˈka(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 piscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piscar in Portuguese?
piscar appears 3.7 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).