desembaraçar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/
desembaraçar is spelled D-E-S-E-M-B-A-R-A-Ç-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desembaraçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disentangle (to free from entanglement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desimpedir”.
What does desembaraçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disentangle (to free from entanglement)
- 2
to rid (to remove something unpleasant)
- 3
to get rid, to rid oneself
- 4
to disembarrass (to free from embarrassment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desimpedir 2. desenredar 3. livrar
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 desembaraçar
- desembaraço first-person present singular
- desembaracei first-person preterite singular
- desembaraçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- desembaraçares infinitive second-person singular
- desembaraçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desembaraçardes infinitive plural second-person
- desembaraçarem infinitive plural third-person
- desembaraçando gerund
- desembaraçados masculine participle past
- desembaraçada feminine participle past
- desembaraçadas feminine participle past
- desembaraças indicative present second-person
- desembaraça indicative present singular
- desembaraçamos first-person indicative plural
- desembaraçais indicative plural present
- desembaraçam indicative plural present
- desembaraçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desembaraçar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /de.zĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(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 desembaraçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desembaraçar in Portuguese?
desembaraçar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).