traçar
Portuguese, verb/tɾaˈsa(ʁ)/
traçar is spelled T-R-A-Ç-A-R (6 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make a stroke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “representar por meio de traços”.
What does traçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make a stroke
- 2
to trace; to delineate
- 3
to outline; to draft
- 4
Brazilslangto eat something up
- 5
Brazilslangto have sex with someone
- 6
to mix
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. representar por meio de traços 2. descrever 3. delinear 4. projetar
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 traçar
- traço first-person present singular
- tracei first-person preterite singular
- traçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- traçares infinitive second-person singular
- traçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- traçardes infinitive plural second-person
- traçarem infinitive plural third-person
- traçando gerund
- traçados masculine participle past
- traçada feminine participle past
- traçadas feminine participle past
- traças indicative present second-person
- traça indicative present singular
- traçamos first-person indicative plural
- traçais indicative plural present
- traçam indicative plural present
- traçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traçar?
- Brazil /tɾaˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾaˈsa(h)]
- /tɾaˈsa(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 traçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traçar in Portuguese?
traçar appears 5.2 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).