encestar
Spanish, verb/enθesˈtaɾ/
encestar is spelled E-N-C-E-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 109,730th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encestar is a Spanish verb meaning “to score a basket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does encestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to score a basket
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encestar
- encesto first-person present singular
- encesté first-person preterite singular
- encestado participle past
- encestando gerund
- encestada feminine participle past
- encestados masculine participle past
- encestadas feminine participle past
- encestas indicative informal present
- encestás indicative informal present
- encesta indicative present singular
- encestamos first-person indicative plural
- encestáis indicative plural present
- encestan indicative plural present
- encestaba first-person imperfect indicative
- encestabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encestábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encestabais imperfect indicative plural
- encestaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encestar?
- /enθesˈtaɾ/
- [ẽn̟.θesˈt̪aɾ]
- /ensesˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encestar in Spanish?
encestar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).