enconado
Spanish, adjective
enconado is spelled E-N-C-O-N-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enconado is a Spanish adjective meaning “bitter; fierce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of enconar. With a tilde, encoñado is a different word: “past participle of encoñarse”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tenaz, ardiente, ferviente”.
What does enconado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bitter; fierce
verb
- 1
past participle of enconar
verb
- 1
past participle of encoñarse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Tenaz, ardiente, ferviente. 2. Encarnizado, violento. 3. Teñido o manchado.
verb: 1. Participio de enconar.
verb: 1. Participio de encoñarse.
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 enconado
- enconada feminine
- enconados masculine plural
- enconadas feminine plural
- encoñada feminine
- encoñados masculine plural
- encoñadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to enconado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enconado in Spanish?
enconado 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).