encharcado
Portuguese, adjective/ẽ.ʃaʁˈka.du/
encharcado is spelled E-N-C-H-A-R-C-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,230th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encharcado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “drenched with liquid; soaked; soggy; sodden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of encharcar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “convertido em charco”.
What does encharcado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
drenched with liquid; soaked; soggy; sodden
verb
- 1
past participle of encharcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. convertido em charco 2. inundado 3. empantanado
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 encharcado
- encharcada feminine
- encharcados masculine plural
- encharcadas feminine plural
- mais encharcado comparative
- o mais encharcado superlative
- encharcadíssimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encharcado?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʃaʁˈka.du/
- Brazil [ẽ.ʃahˈka.du]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʃaʁˈka.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 encharcado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encharcado in Portuguese?
encharcado appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).