desencarnado
Portuguese, noun/de.zẽ.kaʁˈna.du/
desencarnado is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-A-R-N-A-D-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencarnado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a disincarnate person; a ghost; a spirit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desencarnar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o espírito que não se encontra ligado ao corpo vivo”.
What does desencarnado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disincarnate (without a body)
noun
- 1
masculinea disincarnate person; a ghost; a spirit
verb
- 1
past participle of desencarnar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. estado no qual o espírito que não se encontra ligado ao corpo vivo; morto
noun: 1. o espírito que não se encontra ligado ao corpo vivo
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 desencarnado
- desencarnada feminine
- desencarnados masculine plural
- desencarnadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desencarnado?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.kaʁˈna.du/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.kaɦˈna.du]
- Brazil /de.zĩ.kaʁˈna.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desencarnado in Portuguese?
desencarnado appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).