engranar
[ẽŋgɾaˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“engranar” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer que dos o más cosas coincidan entre sus partes para que queden juntas o ajusten entre sí.
Corpus desk
Index ES-engranar · engranar · Spanish
engranar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | engranar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋgɾaˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “engranar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
engranar is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽŋgɾaˈnaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
engranar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is engranar, spelled E-N-G-R-A-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer que dos o más cosas coincidan entre sus partes para que queden juntas o ajusten entre sí.
- 2Acoplar o encajar los dientes de un piñón o rueda dentada con los de otro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engranar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Melancolía de Chopin, engranando un estudio tras otro, engranando una melancolía tras otra
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.