tique
Portuguese, noun
tique is spelled T-I-Q-U-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,837th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tique is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tic (habitual convulsive motion of a muscle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of ticar. With an accent, tiquê is a different word: “queue ticket (numbered tickets for managing queues in public services)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “movimento ou vocalização humanos involuntários, súbitos e repetitivos, que envolvem um determinado grupo de…”.
What does tique mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetic (habitual convulsive motion of a muscle)
- 2
masculinehabit (action performed repeatedly and automatically)
noun
- 1
masculinetick; check mark (a mark used as an indicator)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
Portugalinformalmasculineproscribedqueue ticket (numbered tickets for managing queues in public services)
- 2
Portugalinformalmasculineproscribedticket (pass for transportation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. movimento ou vocalização humanos involuntários, súbitos e repetitivos, que envolvem um determinado grupo de músculos 2. hábito ridículo 3. som do relógio 4. símbolo em formato semelhante à letra V usado como sinalizador de escolha de item dentre uma seleção de itens
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 tique
- tiques plural
- tiquês plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tique in Portuguese?
tique appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).