encimar
Spanish, verb/enθiˈmaɾ/
encimar is spelled E-N-C-I-M-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written Spanish, the 328,186th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encimar is a Spanish verb meaning “to put up; to store high up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner una cosa encima de otra”.
What does encimar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put up; to store high up
- 2
to raise the stakes
- 3
to lie above; to be situated above
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner una cosa encima de otra. 2. Arrimar, acercar. 3. En el juego del tresillo, añadir una puesta á la que ya había en el plato. 4. Erguir.
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 encimar
- encimo first-person present singular
- encimé first-person preterite singular
- encimado participle past
- encimando gerund
- encimada feminine participle past
- encimados masculine participle past
- encimadas feminine participle past
- encimas indicative informal present
- encimás indicative informal present
- encima indicative present singular
- encimamos first-person indicative plural
- encimáis indicative plural present
- enciman indicative plural present
- encimaba first-person imperfect indicative
- encimabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encimábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encimabais imperfect indicative plural
- encimaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encimar?
- /enθiˈmaɾ/
- [ẽn̟.θiˈmaɾ]
- /ensiˈmaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encimar in Spanish?
encimar appears about once in every 91 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).