encadenar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#62,282
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
encadenar is aSpanishverb. It means: Colocar una cadena para cerrar, unir o limitar el movimiento. Pronounced [ẽŋkað̞eˈnaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encadenar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋkað̞eˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encadenar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋkað̞eˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,282 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for encadenar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is encadenar, spelled E-N-C-A-D-E-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Colocar una cadena para cerrar, unir o limitar el movimiento.
- 2Unir una cosa con otra.
- 3Trabar y unir unas cosas con otras, como las palabras.
- 4Formar una cadena con los tomadores de las velas, después de desforradas para que no cuelguen demasiado.
- 5Antiguamente y refiriéndose a un puerto, encadenar era cerrar la boca del mismo con cadenas.
- 6Enlazar las paredes de un edificio entre sí mediante vigas o tirantes encadenados.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #62,282 in Spanish
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