frisado
Portuguese, adjective/fɾiˈza.du/
frisado is spelled F-R-I-S-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frisado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “curly (having curls)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of frisar.
What does frisado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
curly (having curls)
- 2
emphasized
verb
- 1
past participle of frisar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. recurva em fio de cabelo que o deixa com textura encaracolada
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 frisado
- frisada feminine
- frisados masculine plural
- frisadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frisado?
- Brazil /fɾiˈza.du/
- Portugal /fɾiˈza.du/
- Portugal [fɾiˈza.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frisado in Portuguese?
frisado appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).