descarrilar
Portuguese, verb/des.ka.ʁiˈla(ʁ)/
descarrilar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-R-I-L-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descarrilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to derail (to come off the tracks)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sair dos trilhos”.
What does descarrilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to derail (to come off the tracks)
- 2
to derail (to cause a train to come off the tracks)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sair dos trilhos 2. sair do bom caminho, degenerar, desvirtuar 3. comportar-se como se estivesse louco
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 descarrilar
- descarrilo first-person present singular
- descarrilei first-person preterite singular
- descarrilado participle past
- descarrilares infinitive second-person singular
- descarrilarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descarrilardes infinitive plural second-person
- descarrilarem infinitive plural third-person
- descarrilando gerund
- descarrilados masculine participle past
- descarrilada feminine participle past
- descarriladas feminine participle past
- descarrilas indicative present second-person
- descarrila indicative present singular
- descarrilamos first-person indicative plural
- descarrilais indicative plural present
- descarrilam indicative plural present
- descarrilava first-person imperfect indicative
- descarrilavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descarrilar?
- Brazil /des.ka.ʁiˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.ka.hiˈla(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.ka.ʁiˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to descarrilar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descarrilar in Portuguese?
descarrilar 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).