forçado
Portuguese, adjective
forçado is spelled F-O-R-Ç-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,986th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Forçado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “forced, coercive, compulsory” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of forçar. Without its cedilla, forcado is a different word: “pitchfork (farm tool)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “obrigado”.
What does forçado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
forced, coercive, compulsory
trabalho forçado
- 2
insincere, artificial, false, not occurring naturally
risada forçada
- 3
unlikely, far-fetched, exaggerated
filme forçado
verb
- 1
past participle of forçar
noun
- 1
masculinepitchfork (farm tool)
- 2
masculineman that in Portuguese bullfighting faces the bull hand-to-hand
verb
- 1
past participle of forcar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. obrigado 2. não natural; fingido
noun: 1. instrumento de trabalho agrícola semelhante a um grande garfo 2. grupo amador de vários homens que numa corrida de touros pegam o touro
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 forçado
- forçada feminine
- forçados masculine plural
- forçadas feminine plural
- forcados plural
- forcada feminine
- forcadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to forçado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is forçado in Portuguese?
forçado appears 16 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).