encajar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,603
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
encajar is aSpanishverb. It means: Meter una cosa dentro de otra ajustadamente. Pronounced [ẽŋkaˈxaɾ]. Often confused with enojar and encaje.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encajar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋkaˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encajar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋkaˈxaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,603 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for encajar, with forms such as "ecnajar", "enacjar", and "encaajr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "enojar", "encaje", "encara", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 encajar, spelled E-N-C-A-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Meter una cosa dentro de otra ajustadamente.
- 2Meter una cosa dentro de otra ajustadamente.
- 3Meter una cosa dentro de otra ajustadamente.
- 4Meter una cosa dentro de otra ajustadamente.
- 5Unir ajustadamente una cosa con otra.
- 6Dibujar las líneas generales de una ilustración.
- 7Dar una cosa molesta o inapropiada, en particular:
- 8Dar una cosa molesta o inapropiada, en particular:
- 9Dar una cosa molesta o inapropiada, en particular:
- 10Dar una cosa molesta o inapropiada, en particular:
- 11Soportar bien un golpe
- 12Por extensión, soportar bien una causa cualquiera de desazón o decepción
- 13Por extensión, recuperarse de una desazón, decepción o golpe
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnajar,enacjar,encaajr,encajarr,encajjar,encajra,enccajar,encjaar,enncajar,necajar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encajar
Misspelling Variants of "encajar"
Frequency rank: #15,603 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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