encluecar
[ẽŋklweˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“encluecar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ponerse clueca (sentarse a calentar los huevos para que procreen) un ave, especialmente una gallina o un ánade.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encluecar · encluecar · Spanish
encluecar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encluecar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋklweˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “encluecar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
encluecar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽŋklweˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ponerse clueca (sentarse a calentar los huevos para que procreen) un ave, especialmente una gallina o un ánade.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for encluecar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is encluecar, spelled E-N-C-L-U-E-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Ponerse clueca (sentarse a calentar los huevos para que procreen) un ave, especialmente una gallina o un ánade.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.