encerrar
Spanish, verb/enθeˈraɾ/
encerrar is spelled E-N-C-E-R-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encerrar is a Spanish verb meaning “to lock up, to coop up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Introducir algo o a alguien en un lugar cerrado”.
What does encerrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lock up, to coop up
- 2
to lock away, put away, to imprison, to nail (in a prison or mental hospital)
- 3
to enclose, to confine, to immure
- 4
to contain, to hold, to include, to encapsulate, to entail
- 5
to stalemate
- 6
to separate (between brackets, commas)
- 7
to take over; occupy (a building)
- 8
to shut oneself up, to withdraw, to shut away oneself, to shut off oneself, to lock up or lock down oneself, to close off oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Introducir algo o a alguien en un lugar cerrado.
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 encerrar
- encierro first-person present singular
- encerré first-person preterite singular
- encerrado participle past
- e-ie alternation
- encerrando gerund
- encerrada feminine participle past
- encerrados masculine participle past
- encerradas feminine participle past
- encierras indicative informal present
- encerrás indicative informal present
- encierra indicative present singular
- encerramos first-person indicative plural
- encerráis indicative plural present
- encierran indicative plural present
- encerraba first-person imperfect indicative
- encerrabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encerrábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encerrabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encerrar?
- /enθeˈraɾ/
- [ẽn̟.θeˈraɾ]
- /enseˈraɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encerrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encerrar in Spanish?
encerrar appears 2.0 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).