troca
Portuguese, noun
troca is spelled T-R-O-C-A (5 letters) and appears 78 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,242nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Troca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “swap; exchange (the act of changing or exchanging one thing for another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of trocar. With a cedilla, troça is a different word: “mockery, ridicule”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o ato de trocar; substituir uma coisa por outra”.
What does troca mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineswap; exchange (the act of changing or exchanging one thing for another)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininemockery, ridicule
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o ato de trocar; substituir uma coisa por outra 2. transferência simultânea de propriedades entre seus donos; permuta; barganha;
noun: 1. caçoada, brincadeira 2. escárnio, humilhação 3. festa, farra, pândega
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 troca
- trocas plural
- troças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to troca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is troca in Portuguese?
troca appears 78 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).