quiçá
Portuguese, adverb
quiçá is spelled Q-U-I-Ç-Á (5 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,488th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quiçá is a Portuguese adverb meaning “perhaps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its cedilla, quica is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quem sabe; talvez”.
What does quiçá mean in English?
adverb
- 1
perhaps
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. quem sabe; talvez
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 quiçá
- cecais alternative
- quiça alternative obsolete
- quiçà alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quiçá
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quiçá in Portuguese?
quiçá appears 1.3 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).