inescrutável
Portuguese, adjective/i.nes.kɾuˈta.vew/
inescrutável is spelled I-N-E-S-C-R-U-T-Á-V-E-L (12 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 138,138th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inescrutável is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “inscrutable (difficult or impossible to comprehend)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “impossível de ser escrutado, investigado, compreendido”.
What does inescrutável mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineinscrutable (difficult or impossible to comprehend)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. impossível de ser escrutado, investigado, compreendido 2. impenetrável, incompreensível, insondável
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 inescrutável
- inescrutáveis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inescrutável?
- Brazil /i.nes.kɾuˈta.vew/
- Brazil [i.nes.kɾuˈta.veʊ̯]
- /i.neʃ.kɾuˈta.vew/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to inescrutável
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inescrutável in Portuguese?
inescrutável appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).