embaraço
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.baˈɾa.su/
embaraço is spelled E-M-B-A-R-A-Ç-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,025th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embaraço is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “embarrassment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of embaraçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dificuldade”.
What does embaraço mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineembarrassment
- 2
masculineawkwardness
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of embaraçar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dificuldade 2. obstáculo 3. gravidez
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 embaraço
- embaraços plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embaraço?
- Brazil /ẽ.baˈɾa.su/
- Brazil /ĩ.baˈɾa.su/
- Portugal /ẽ.bɐˈɾa.su/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is embaraço in Portuguese?
embaraço appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).