encara
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,573
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
encara is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de encarar. Pronounced [ẽŋˈkaɾa]. Often confused with entra and encima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋˈkaɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encara is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋˈkaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,573 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for encara, with forms such as "ecnara", "enacra", and "encaar". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "entra", "encima", "estará", 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 encara, spelled E-N-C-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de encarar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de encarar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnara,enacra,encaar,enccara,encraa,enncara,necara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encara
Misspelling Variants of "encara"
Frequency rank: #33,573 in Spanish
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