empalhado
Portuguese, verb
empalhado is spelled E-M-P-A-L-H-A-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empalhado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of empalhar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does empalhado mean in English?
verb
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past participle of empalhar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se dos animais embalsamados e enchidos com palha ou outro material 2. diz-se das cadeiras com assento ou encosto de palhinha (trama de palha)
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 empalhado
- empalhada feminine
- empalhados masculine plural
- empalhadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is empalhado in Portuguese?
empalhado appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).