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encurralado

Portuguese, verb

encurralado is spelled E-N-C-U-R-R-A-L-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encurralado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of encurralar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does encurralado mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of encurralar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que encurralou-se 2. que ficou preso sem possibilidade de fuga, acuado 3. que está em uma situação difícil, sem solução

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 encurralado

  • encurralada feminine
  • encurralados masculine plural
  • encurraladas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is encurralado in Portuguese?

encurralado appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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