desenrascado
Portuguese, adjective
desenrascado is spelled D-E-S-E-N-R-A-S-C-A-D-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese, the 244,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desenrascado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “resourceful; good at improvising; able to get out of tricky situations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desenrascar.
What does desenrascado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Portugalresourceful; good at improvising; able to get out of tricky situations
verb
- 1
past participle of desenrascar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of desenrascado
- desenrascada feminine
- desenrascados masculine plural
- desenrascadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is desenrascado in Portuguese?
desenrascado appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).