despenteado
Portuguese, adjective/d͡ʒis.pẽ.t͡ʃiˈa.du/
despenteado is spelled D-E-S-P-E-N-T-E-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 80,231st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despenteado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “dishevelled (with the hair uncombed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of despentear. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sem penteado, com o cabelo em pé”.
What does despenteado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dishevelled (with the hair uncombed)
verb
- 1
past participle of despentear
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sem penteado, com o cabelo em pé
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 despenteado
- despenteada feminine
- despenteados masculine plural
- despenteadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despenteado?
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.pẽ.t͡ʃiˈa.du/
- Brazil /des.pẽ.teˈa.du/
- /d͡ʒiʃ.pẽ.t͡ʃiˈa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to despenteado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is despenteado in Portuguese?
despenteado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).