trucar
Portuguese, verb/tɾuˈka(ʁ)/
trucar is spelled T-R-U-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written Portuguese, the 221,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make the first bid in the game of Truco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “no jogo do truque propor a primeira parada”.
What does trucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make the first bid in the game of Truco
verb
- 1
to do trick photography
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. no jogo do truque propor a primeira parada
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 trucar
- truco first-person present singular
- truquei first-person preterite singular
- trucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- trucares infinitive second-person singular
- trucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- trucardes infinitive plural second-person
- trucarem infinitive plural third-person
- trucando gerund
- trucados masculine participle past
- trucada feminine participle past
- trucadas feminine participle past
- trucas indicative present second-person
- truca indicative present singular
- trucamos first-person indicative plural
- trucais indicative plural present
- trucam indicative plural present
- trucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trucar?
- Brazil /tɾuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾuˈka(h)]
- /tɾuˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trucar in Portuguese?
trucar appears about once in every 65 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).