mascavado
Portuguese, noun/mas.kaˈva.du/
mascavado is a Portuguese noun meaning “muscovado (unrefined brown sugar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of mascavar.
What does mascavado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
adulterated
- 2
incomprehensible
noun
- 1
muscovado (unrefined brown sugar)
verb
- 1
past participle of mascavar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of mascavado
- mascavada feminine
- mascavados masculine plural
- mascavadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mascavado?
- Brazil /mas.kaˈva.du/
- /maʃ.kaˈva.du/
- Portugal /mɐʃ.kɐˈva.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mascavado in Portuguese?
mascavado appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).