descambar
Portuguese, verb/des.kɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
descambar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-M-B-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descambar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to degenerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cair, desabar, despencar”.
What does descambar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to degenerate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cair, desabar, despencar 2. descer 3. ter andamento ou desfecho diverso do pretendido; derivar
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 descambar
- descambo first-person present singular
- descambei first-person preterite singular
- descambado participle past
- descambares infinitive second-person singular
- descambarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descambardes infinitive plural second-person
- descambarem infinitive plural third-person
- descambando gerund
- descambados masculine participle past
- descambada feminine participle past
- descambadas feminine participle past
- descambas indicative present second-person
- descamba indicative present singular
- descambamos first-person indicative plural
- descambais indicative plural present
- descambam indicative plural present
- descambava first-person imperfect indicative
- descambavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descambar?
- Brazil /des.kɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kɐ̃ˈba(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descambar in Portuguese?
descambar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).