desencontro
Portuguese, noun/de.zẽˈkõ.tɾu/
desencontro is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencontro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “failed or unfortunate meeting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desencontrar.
What does desencontro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefailed or unfortunate meeting
- 2
masculinemismatch (of ideas or principles)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desencontrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of desencontro
- desencontros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desencontro?
- Brazil /de.zẽˈkõ.tɾu/
- Brazil /de.zĩˈkõ.tɾu/
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zẽˈkõ.tɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desencontro in Portuguese?
desencontro 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).