encierro
Spanish, noun/enˈθjero/
encierro is spelled E-N-C-I-E-R-R-O (8 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 17,619th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encierro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “confinement, enclosure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of encerrar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de encerrar o encerrarse”.
What does encierro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconfinement, enclosure
- 2
masculinereclusion
- 3
masculineprison
- 4
masculinesit-in (protest)
- 5
masculinebull run, encierro
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of encerrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de encerrar o encerrarse. 2. Medida de protesta consistente en encerrarse en un lugar, negándose a salir fuera de él. 3. Lugar en el que alguien se encierra. 4. Fiesta popular en el que los toros son llevados en persecución de corredores por un recorrido fijado hasta la plaza donde serán lidiados.
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 encierro
- encierros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encierro?
- /enˈθjero/
- [ẽn̟ˈθje.ro]
- /enˈsjero/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encierro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encierro in Spanish?
encierro appears 2.9 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).