encuadrar
Spanish, verb/enkwaˈdɾaɾ/
encuadrar is spelled E-N-C-U-A-D-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 56,127th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encuadrar is a Spanish verb meaning “to frame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner, colocar algo en un marco o cuadro”.
What does encuadrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frame
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner, colocar algo en un marco o cuadro. 2. Ajustar una cosa en el interior de otra. 3. Distribuir a las personas siguiendo un esquema de organización definido, para que participen en algún tipo de actividad determinada. 4. Abarcar con el campo visual del objetivo de una cámara fotográfica o filmadora los elementos que se quieren registrar
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 encuadrar
- encuadro first-person present singular
- encuadré first-person preterite singular
- encuadrado participle past
- encuadrando gerund
- encuadrada feminine participle past
- encuadrados masculine participle past
- encuadradas feminine participle past
- encuadras indicative informal present
- encuadrás indicative informal present
- encuadra indicative present singular
- encuadramos first-person indicative plural
- encuadráis indicative plural present
- encuadran indicative plural present
- encuadraba first-person imperfect indicative
- encuadrabas imperfect indicative second-person
- encuadrábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encuadrabais imperfect indicative plural
- encuadraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encuadrar?
- /enkwaˈdɾaɾ/
- [ẽŋ.kwaˈð̞ɾaɾ]
- [ẽŋkwaˈð̞ɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encuadrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encuadrar in Spanish?
encuadrar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).