trancar
Portuguese, verb
trancar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lock, latch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, trançar is a different word: “to plait; to braid; to interweave (to combine two things through…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segurar ou fechar com tranca”.
What does trancar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lock, latch
Ele esqueceu de trancar a porta.
verb
- 1
to plait; to braid; to interweave (to combine two things through weaving)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer tranças 2. entrelaçar
verb: 1. segurar ou fechar com tranca
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 trancar
- tranco first-person present singular
- tranquei first-person preterite singular
- trancado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- trancares infinitive second-person singular
- trancarmos first-person infinitive plural
- trancardes infinitive plural second-person
- trancarem infinitive plural third-person
- trancando gerund
- trancados masculine participle past
- trancada feminine participle past
- trancadas feminine participle past
- trancas indicative present second-person
- tranca indicative present singular
- trancamos first-person indicative plural
- trancais indicative plural present
- trancam indicative plural present
- trancava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to trancar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trancar in Portuguese?
trancar appears 3.1 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).