encarcelar
Spanish, verb/enkaɾθeˈlaɾ/
encarcelar is spelled E-N-C-A-R-C-E-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 25,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encarcelar is a Spanish verb meaning “to imprison, incarcerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Encerrar a alguien en una prisión”.
What does encarcelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imprison, incarcerate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Encerrar a alguien en una prisión. 2. Reforzar con yeso o cal una pieza, generalmente de madera o hierro tales como marcos y rejas, para asegurarla. 3. Meter dos piezas recién unidas con pegante dentro de la cárcel de carpintero, para que se fije bien el pegado.
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 encarcelar
- encarcelo first-person present singular
- encarcelé first-person preterite singular
- encarcelado participle past
- encarcelando gerund
- encarcelada feminine participle past
- encarcelados masculine participle past
- encarceladas feminine participle past
- encarcelas indicative informal present
- encarcelás indicative informal present
- encarcela indicative present singular
- encarcelamos first-person indicative plural
- encarceláis indicative plural present
- encarcelan indicative plural present
- encarcelaba first-person imperfect indicative
- encarcelabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encarcelábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encarcelabais imperfect indicative plural
- encarcelaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encarcelar?
- /enkaɾθeˈlaɾ/
- [ẽŋ.kaɾ.θeˈlaɾ]
- /enkaɾseˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encarcelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encarcelar in Spanish?
encarcelar appears 1.7 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).