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descaramento

Portuguese, noun/des.ka.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/

descaramento is spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-A-M-E-N-T-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,861st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descaramento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “effrontery (insolent and shameless audacity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “impudência; insolência”.

What does descaramento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineeffrontery (insolent and shameless audacity)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. impudência; insolência

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 descaramento

  • descaramentos plural

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

How do you pronounce descaramento?

  • Brazil /des.ka.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/
  • Brazil /d͡ʒis.ka.ɾaˈmẽ.tu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to descaramento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is descaramento in Portuguese?

descaramento appears about once in every 5 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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