encaste
Spanish, noun
encaste is spelled E-N-C-A-S-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaste is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “crossbreeding (of cattle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of encastar. With an accent, encasté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of encastar”.
What does encaste mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrossbreeding (of cattle)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of encastar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encaste
- encastes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is encaste in Spanish?
encaste appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).