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encerramiento

Spanish, noun/enθeraˈmjento/

encerramiento is spelled E-N-C-E-R-R-A-M-I-E-N-T-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish, the 213,186th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encerramiento is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “prison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de encerrar”.

What does encerramiento mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineprison

  2. 2

    masculinesit-in

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción y efecto de encerrar.

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 encerramiento

  • encerramientos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce encerramiento?

  • /enθeraˈmjento/
  • [ẽn̟.θe.raˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • /enseraˈmjento/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to encerramiento

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is encerramiento in Spanish?

encerramiento appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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