retrucar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.tɾuˈka(ʁ)/
retrucar is spelled R-E-T-R-U-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,935th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retrucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to retort, reply” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “responder com argumentos na contra, objetar, replicar”.
What does retrucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retort, reply
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. responder com argumentos na contra, objetar, replicar
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 retrucar
- retruco first-person present singular
- retruquei first-person preterite singular
- retrucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- retrucares infinitive second-person singular
- retrucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- retrucardes infinitive plural second-person
- retrucarem infinitive plural third-person
- retrucando gerund
- retrucados masculine participle past
- retrucada feminine participle past
- retrucadas feminine participle past
- retrucas indicative present second-person
- retruca indicative present singular
- retrucamos first-person indicative plural
- retrucais indicative plural present
- retrucam indicative plural present
- retrucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retrucar?
- Brazil /ʁe.tɾuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.tɾuˈka(h)]
- /ʁe.tɾuˈka(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 retrucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retrucar in Portuguese?
retrucar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).