encuentro
Spanish, noun/enˈkwentɾo/
encuentro is spelled E-N-C-U-E-N-T-R-O (9 letters) and appears 98 times per million words in written Spanish, the 891st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encuentro is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “encounter, meeting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of encontrar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de encontrar o de encontrarse”.
What does encuentro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineencounter, meeting
- 2
masculinedispute, row
- 3
masculinematch, game
- 4
masculinecrash, collision
- 5
masculineskirmish, clash
- 6
masculineunderarm, armpit
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of encontrar
No me encuentro bien.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de encontrar o de encontrarse. 2. El choque de una cosa con otra. 3. Oposición, contradicción. 4. En los carneros y otros animales, la acción y efecto de encontrar o topetar.
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 encuentro
- encuentros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encuentro?
- /enˈkwentɾo/
- [ẽŋˈkwẽn̪.t̪ɾo]
- [ẽŋˈkwẽn̪t̪ɾo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encuentro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encuentro in Spanish?
encuentro appears 98 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).