desenroscar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.ʁosˈka(ʁ)/
desenroscar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-R-O-S-C-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Portuguese, the 167,801st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desenroscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to unscrew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does desenroscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unscrew
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of desenroscar
- desenrosco first-person present singular
- desenrosquei first-person preterite singular
- desenroscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desenroscares infinitive second-person singular
- desenroscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desenroscardes infinitive plural second-person
- desenroscarem infinitive plural third-person
- desenroscando gerund
- desenroscados masculine participle past
- desenroscada feminine participle past
- desenroscadas feminine participle past
- desenroscas indicative present second-person
- desenrosca indicative present singular
- desenroscamos first-person indicative plural
- desenroscais indicative plural present
- desenroscam indicative plural present
- desenroscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desenroscar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.ʁosˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.hosˈka(h)]
- Brazil /de.zĩ.ʁosˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desenroscar in Portuguese?
desenroscar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).