encañonar
Spanish, verb/enkaɲoˈnaɾ/
encañonar is spelled E-N-C-A-Ñ-O-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish, the 246,963rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encañonar is a Spanish verb meaning “to aim” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apuntar a una persona con un arma de fuego”.
What does encañonar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to aim
- 2
to channel, to guide, to lead
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apuntar a una persona con un arma de fuego.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of encañonar
- encañono first-person present singular
- encañoné first-person preterite singular
- encañonado participle past
- encañonando gerund
- encañonada feminine participle past
- encañonados masculine participle past
- encañonadas feminine participle past
- encañonas indicative informal present
- encañonás indicative informal present
- encañona indicative present singular
- encañonamos first-person indicative plural
- encañonáis indicative plural present
- encañonan indicative plural present
- encañonaba first-person imperfect indicative
- encañonabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encañonábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encañonabais imperfect indicative plural
- encañonaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encañonar?
- /enkaɲoˈnaɾ/
- [ẽŋ.ka.ɲoˈnaɾ]
- [ẽŋkaɲoˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encañonar in Spanish?
encañonar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).