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enfangar

Spanish, verb/enfanˈɡaɾ/

enfangar is spelled E-N-F-A-N-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish, the 271,310th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfangar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cover with mud” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cubrir de fango una cosa o meterla en él”.

What does enfangar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to cover with mud

  2. 2

    to get one's hands dirty

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Cubrir de fango una cosa o meterla en él. 2. Desprestigiar.

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 enfangar

  • enfango first-person present singular
  • enfangué first-person preterite singular
  • enfangado participle past
  • g-gu alternation
  • enfangando gerund
  • enfangada feminine participle past
  • enfangados masculine participle past
  • enfangadas feminine participle past
  • enfangas indicative informal present
  • enfangás indicative informal present
  • enfanga indicative present singular
  • enfangamos first-person indicative plural
  • enfangáis indicative plural present
  • enfangan indicative plural present
  • enfangaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • enfangabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • enfangábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • enfangabais imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce enfangar?

  • /enfanˈɡaɾ/
  • [ẽɱ.fãŋˈɡaɾ]
  • [ẽɱfãŋˈgaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to enfangar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is enfangar in Spanish?

enfangar appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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