enferrujado
Portuguese, adjective/ẽ.fe.ʁuˈʒa.du/
enferrujado is spelled E-N-F-E-R-R-U-J-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 51,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enferrujado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “rusty (covered in rust)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of enferrujar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “em que há ferrugem”.
What does enferrujado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
rusty (covered in rust)
- 2
rusty (lacking recent practice)
verb
- 1
past participle of enferrujar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. em que há ferrugem
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 enferrujado
- enferrujada feminine
- enferrujados masculine plural
- enferrujadas feminine plural
- mais enferrujado comparative
- o mais enferrujado superlative
- enferrujadíssimo superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enferrujado?
- Brazil /ẽ.fe.ʁuˈʒa.du/
- Brazil [ẽ.fe.huˈʒa.du]
- Brazil /ĩ.fe.ʁuˈʒa.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 enferrujado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enferrujado in Portuguese?
enferrujado 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).