placar
Portuguese, noun/plaˈka(ʁ)/
placar is spelled P-L-A-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Placar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “placard (a sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva”.
What does placar mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto calm
verb
- 1
to tackle
noun
- 1
masculineplacard (a sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement)
- 2
masculinescoreboard (board that displays the score of a game)
- 3
masculinethe scores of a game at a given time
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. quadro para registro de pontos alcançados durante uma competição esportiva 2. resultado final dos pontos conseguidos, por ambos os times, numa competição esportiva 3. condecoração, venera
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 placar
- placo first-person present singular
- plaquei first-person preterite singular
- placado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- placares infinitive second-person singular
- placarmos first-person infinitive plural
- placardes infinitive plural second-person
- placarem infinitive plural third-person
- placando gerund
- placados masculine participle past
- placada feminine participle past
- placadas feminine participle past
- placas indicative present second-person
- placa indicative present singular
- placamos first-person indicative plural
- placais indicative plural present
- placam indicative plural present
- placava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce placar?
- Brazil /plaˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [plaˈka(h)]
- /plaˈka(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 placar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is placar in Portuguese?
placar appears 14 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).