descabelar
Portuguese, verb/des.ka.beˈla(ʁ)/
descabelar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-B-E-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 117,162nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descabelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to depilate (remove hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “empreender um grande empenho agoniado a sofrer e se impor contra dificuldade”.
What does descabelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to depilate (remove hair)
- 2
to become angry
- 3
to ruffle someone's hair
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. empreender um grande empenho agoniado a sofrer e se impor contra dificuldade 2. agoniar-se desesperadamente 3. sentir grande excitação, furor
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 descabelar
- descabelo first-person present singular
- descabelei first-person preterite singular
- descabelado participle past
- descabelares infinitive second-person singular
- descabelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descabelardes infinitive plural second-person
- descabelarem infinitive plural third-person
- descabelando gerund
- descabelados masculine participle past
- descabelada feminine participle past
- descabeladas feminine participle past
- descabelas indicative present second-person
- descabela indicative present singular
- descabelamos first-person indicative plural
- descabelais indicative plural present
- descabelam indicative plural present
- descabelava first-person imperfect indicative
- descabelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descabelar?
- Brazil /des.ka.beˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.ka.beˈla(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.ka.beˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descabelar in Portuguese?
descabelar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).