desencaixar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.kajˈʃa(ʁ)/
desencaixar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-A-I-X-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencaixar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disengage (get or go out of place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “remover da caixa; desencaixotar”.
What does desencaixar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disengage (get or go out of place)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. remover da caixa; desencaixotar 2. retirar o encaixe 3. retirar do lugar que seria próprio ou do lugar que seria ideal
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 desencaixar
- desencaixo first-person present singular
- desencaixei first-person preterite singular
- desencaixado participle past
- desencaixares infinitive second-person singular
- desencaixarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desencaixardes infinitive plural second-person
- desencaixarem infinitive plural third-person
- desencaixando gerund
- desencaixados masculine participle past
- desencaixada feminine participle past
- desencaixadas feminine participle past
- desencaixas indicative present second-person
- desencaixa indicative present singular
- desencaixamos first-person indicative plural
- desencaixais indicative plural present
- desencaixam indicative plural present
- desencaixava first-person imperfect indicative
- desencaixavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desencaixar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.kajˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.kaɪ̯ˈʃa(h)]
- /de.zẽ.kajˈʃa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desencaixar in Portuguese?
desencaixar appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).