zapear
Portuguese, verb/za.peˈa(ʁ)/
zapear is spelled Z-A-P-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zapear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to zap (change TV channels repeatedly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alternar entre canais de uma televisão de modo rápido e consecutivo, pulando de um para outro, com o controle…”.
What does zapear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto zap (change TV channels repeatedly)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. alternar entre canais de uma televisão de modo rápido e consecutivo, pulando de um para outro, com o controle remoto, para evitar assistir os intervalos comerciais: zapear os melhores canais 2. (por extensão) fazer algo muito rapidamente, entre uma coisa e outra: zapear na internet
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 zapear
- zapeio first-person present singular
- zapeei first-person preterite singular
- zapeado participle past
- zapeares infinitive second-person singular
- zapearmos first-person infinitive plural
- zapeardes infinitive plural second-person
- zapearem infinitive plural third-person
- zapeando gerund
- zapeados masculine participle past
- zapeada feminine participle past
- zapeadas feminine participle past
- zapeias indicative present second-person
- zapeia indicative present singular
- zapeamos first-person indicative plural
- zapeais indicative plural present
- zapeiam indicative plural present
- zapeava first-person imperfect indicative
- zapeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zapear?
- Brazil /za.peˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [za.peˈa(h)]
- Brazil /za.piˈa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zapear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zapear in Portuguese?
zapear appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).