encarcelamiento
[ẽŋkaɾselaˈmjẽn̪t̪o]
The verdict
“encarcelamiento” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #21,654 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,654
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 15
- letters
- 23
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de encarcelar o poner en prisión.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encarcelamiento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽŋkaɾselaˈmjẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #21,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encarcelamiento” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encarcelamiento is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋkaɾselaˈmjẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,654 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción o efecto de encarcelar o poner en prisión.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for encarcelamiento, with forms such as "ecnarcelamiento", "enacrcelamiento", and "encacrelamiento". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is encarcelamiento, spelled E-N-C-A-R-C-E-L-A-M-I-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de encarcelar o poner en prisión.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnarcelamiento,enacrcelamiento,encacrelamiento,encarccelamiento,encarcealmiento,encarcelaimento,encarcelameinto,encarcelamiennto,encarcelamienot,encarcelamientto,encarcelamietno,encarcelamineto,encarcelammiento,encarcellamiento,encarcelmaiento,encarcleamiento,encareclamiento,encarrcelamiento,encarselamiento,enccarcelamiento,encracelamiento,enncarcelamiento,necarcelamiento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encarcelamiento - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “encarcelamiento”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-C-A-R-C-E-L-A-M-I-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽŋkaɾselaˈmjẽn̪t̪o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.