encarnar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,152
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
encarnar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dicho de una sustancia espiritual: adquirir una res corpórea. Se aplica principalmente a la acción de haberse hecho hombre el Verbo Divino. Pronounced [ẽŋkaɾˈnaɾ]. Often confused with engañar and encerrar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encarnar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋkaɾˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for encarnar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽŋkaɾˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,152 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for encarnar, with forms such as "ecnarnar", "enacrnar", and "encanrar". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "engañar", "encerrar", "enmarcar", 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 encarnar, spelled E-N-C-A-R-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una sustancia espiritual: adquirir una res corpórea. Se aplica principalmente a la acción de haberse hecho hombre el Verbo Divino.
- 2Dicho de la tinta: quedar estampada sobre el papel.
- 3Hacer fuerte impresión en el ánimo una noticia.
- 4Introducirse por la carne un objeto cortante.
- 5Dicho de una herida: criar carne cuando se va mejorando y sanando.
- 6Dicho del perro: cebarse en la caza objetivo, sin dejarla hasta matarla.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecnarnar,enacrnar,encanrar,encaranr,encarnarr,encarnnar,encarnra,encarrnar,enccarnar,encranar,enncarnar,necarnar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encarnar
Misspelling Variants of "encarnar"
Frequency rank: #44,152 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our Spanish index: