sufocar
Portuguese, verb/su.foˈka(ʁ)/
sufocar is spelled S-U-F-O-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,227th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sufocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to choke, stifle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “abafar”.
What does sufocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to choke, stifle
- 2
to suffocate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. abafar 2. fazer perder a respiração
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 sufocar
- sufoco first-person present singular
- sufoquei first-person preterite singular
- sufocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- sufocares infinitive second-person singular
- sufocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sufocardes infinitive plural second-person
- sufocarem infinitive plural third-person
- sufocando gerund
- sufocados masculine participle past
- sufocada feminine participle past
- sufocadas feminine participle past
- sufocas indicative present second-person
- sufoca indicative present singular
- sufocamos first-person indicative plural
- sufocais indicative plural present
- sufocam indicative plural present
- sufocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sufocar?
- Brazil /su.foˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [su.foˈka(h)]
- /su.foˈka(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 sufocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sufocar in Portuguese?
sufocar appears 1.9 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).