emporcalhar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.poʁ.kaˈʎa(ʁ)/
emporcalhar is spelled E-M-P-O-R-C-A-L-H-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese, the 180,215th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emporcalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dirty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sujar, lixar, manchar”.
What does emporcalhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dirty
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sujar, lixar, manchar 2. degradar moralmente, depravar
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 emporcalhar
- emporcalho first-person present singular
- emporcalhei first-person preterite singular
- emporcalhado participle past
- emporcalhares infinitive second-person singular
- emporcalharmos first-person infinitive plural
- emporcalhardes infinitive plural second-person
- emporcalharem infinitive plural third-person
- emporcalhando gerund
- emporcalhados masculine participle past
- emporcalhada feminine participle past
- emporcalhadas feminine participle past
- emporcalhas indicative present second-person
- emporcalha indicative present singular
- emporcalhamos first-person indicative plural
- emporcalhais indicative plural present
- emporcalham indicative plural present
- emporcalhava first-person imperfect indicative
- emporcalhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emporcalhar?
- Brazil /ẽ.poʁ.kaˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.poh.kaˈʎa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.poʁ.kaˈʎa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is emporcalhar in Portuguese?
emporcalhar appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).