cercado
Portuguese, noun/seʁˈka.du/
cercado is spelled C-E-R-C-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,159th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cercado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a fenced enclosure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cercar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “móvel quadrado, com telas protetoras nos lados, onde se mantém limitados crianças ou animais”.
What does cercado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fenced (surrounded or enclosed by a fence)
noun
- 1
masculinea fenced enclosure
- 2
Brazilmasculineplaypen
verb
- 1
past participle of cercar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. rodeado ou contornado por uma barreira 2. que tem várias pessoas a sua volta ou imediações 3. que é objeto ou centro de (atenções, mimos, cuidado, etc.) 4. aquele que sofreu um cerco
noun: 1. móvel quadrado, com telas protetoras nos lados, onde se mantém limitados crianças ou animais 2. terreno ou espaço limitado por cerca ou muro 3. o mesmo que cerca
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 cercado
- cercada feminine
- cercados masculine plural
- cercadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cercado?
- Brazil /seʁˈka.du/
- Brazil [sehˈka.du]
- /seɾˈka.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cercado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cercado in Portuguese?
cercado appears 8.7 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).