encouraçado
Portuguese, noun/ẽ.ko(w).ɾaˈsa.du/
encouraçado is spelled E-N-C-O-U-R-A-Ç-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encouraçado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ironclad (armour-plated warship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does encouraçado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineironclad (armour-plated warship)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encouraçado
- encouraçados plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encouraçado?
- Brazil /ẽ.ko(w).ɾaˈsa.du/
- Brazil [ẽ.ko(ʊ̯).ɾaˈsa.du]
- Brazil /ĩ.ko(w).ɾaˈsa.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 encouraçado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encouraçado in Portuguese?
encouraçado 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).