rabiscar
Portuguese, verb/ʁa.bisˈka(ʁ)/
rabiscar is spelled R-A-B-I-S-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 58,415th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rabiscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scrawl; to scribble (write hastily or illegibly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “(transitivo direto e intransitivo) fazer rabiscos (risco) em; cobrir de rabiscos”.
What does rabiscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scrawl; to scribble (write hastily or illegibly)
- 2
to sketch; to doodle; to scribble (make a rough drawing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (transitivo direto e intransitivo) fazer rabiscos (risco) em; cobrir de rabiscos. 2. (transitivo direto) escrever (algo) de forma pouco ou nada legível; garatujar. 3. (transitivo direto) escrever rapidamente; escrevinhar. 4. (transitivo direto) dar forma escrita a (algo).
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 rabiscar
- rabisco first-person present singular
- rabisquei first-person preterite singular
- rabiscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- rabiscares infinitive second-person singular
- rabiscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rabiscardes infinitive plural second-person
- rabiscarem infinitive plural third-person
- rabiscando gerund
- rabiscados masculine participle past
- rabiscada feminine participle past
- rabiscadas feminine participle past
- rabiscas indicative present second-person
- rabisca indicative present singular
- rabiscamos first-person indicative plural
- rabiscais indicative plural present
- rabiscam indicative plural present
- rabiscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabiscar?
- Brazil /ʁa.bisˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ha.bisˈka(h)]
- /ʁa.bisˈka(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 rabiscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rabiscar in Portuguese?
rabiscar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).