desenrascar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.ʁasˈka(ʁ)/
desenrascar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-R-A-S-C-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desenrascar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disentangle (a net, dragnet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conseguir livrar-se de problemas com facilidade”.
What does desenrascar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disentangle (a net, dragnet)
- 2
to disentangle (cables, sails, flags)
- 3
to get one(self) out of trouble or a difficult situation
- 4
Portugalcolloquialto do something with relatively ease and improvisation
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. conseguir livrar-se de problemas com facilidade
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 desenrascar
- desenrasco first-person present singular
- desenrasquei first-person preterite singular
- desenrascado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desenrascares infinitive second-person singular
- desenrascarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desenrascardes infinitive plural second-person
- desenrascarem infinitive plural third-person
- desenrascando gerund
- desenrascados masculine participle past
- desenrascada feminine participle past
- desenrascadas feminine participle past
- desenrascas indicative present second-person
- desenrasca indicative present singular
- desenrascamos first-person indicative plural
- desenrascais indicative plural present
- desenrascam indicative plural present
- desenrascava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desenrascar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.ʁasˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.hasˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desenrascar in Portuguese?
desenrascar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).