emboscado
Portuguese, adjective/ẽ.bosˈka.du/
emboscado is spelled E-M-B-O-S-C-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emboscado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “ambushed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of emboscar.
What does emboscado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ambushed
verb
- 1
past participle of emboscar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of emboscado
- emboscada feminine
- emboscados masculine plural
- emboscadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emboscado?
- Brazil /ẽ.bosˈka.du/
- Brazil /ĩ.bosˈka.du/
- /ẽ.boʃˈka.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is emboscado in Portuguese?
emboscado appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).