enclavar
Spanish, verb/enklaˈbaɾ/
enclavar is spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Spanish, the 298,369th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enclavar is a Spanish verb meaning “to pierce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de clavar”.
What does enclavar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pierce
- 2
to nail
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de clavar. 2. Herir al caballo por introducir demasiado el clavo en la herradura. 3. Engañar.
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 enclavar
- enclavo first-person present singular
- enclavé first-person preterite singular
- enclavado participle past
- enclavando gerund
- enclavada feminine participle past
- enclavados masculine participle past
- enclavadas feminine participle past
- enclavas indicative informal present
- enclavás indicative informal present
- enclava indicative present singular
- enclavamos first-person indicative plural
- enclaváis indicative plural present
- enclavan indicative plural present
- enclavaba first-person imperfect indicative
- enclavabas imperfect indicative second-person
- enclavábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- enclavabais imperfect indicative plural
- enclavaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enclavar?
- /enklaˈbaɾ/
- [ẽŋ.klaˈβ̞aɾ]
- [ẽŋklaˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enclavar in Spanish?
enclavar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).