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descampado

Portuguese, noun

descampado is spelled D-E-S-C-A-M-P-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 79,437th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descampado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “wide stretch of land that is uncultivated and/or unused” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of descampar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “campo vasto, plano, sem cultura, destituído de árvore ou de povoação”.

What does descampado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    vacant, uninhabited (of a dwelling or a lot)

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewide stretch of land that is uncultivated and/or unused

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of descampar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. diz-se de campo vasto, plano, sem cultura, destituído de árvore ou de povoação

noun: 1. campo vasto, plano, sem cultura, destituído de árvore ou de povoação

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 descampado

  • descampada feminine
  • descampados masculine plural
  • descampadas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is descampado in Portuguese?

descampado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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