encabeçar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ka.beˈsa(ʁ)/
encabeçar is spelled E-N-C-A-B-E-Ç-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 67,344th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encabeçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lead, to head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “liderar, assumir a posição de cabeça (chefe)”.
What does encabeçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lead, to head
- 2
to convince, to persuade
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. liderar, assumir a posição de cabeça (chefe) 2. vir à frente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of encabeçar
- encabeço first-person present singular
- encabecei first-person preterite singular
- encabeçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- encabeçares infinitive second-person singular
- encabeçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encabeçardes infinitive plural second-person
- encabeçarem infinitive plural third-person
- encabeçando gerund
- encabeçados masculine participle past
- encabeçada feminine participle past
- encabeçadas feminine participle past
- encabeças indicative present second-person
- encabeça indicative present singular
- encabeçamos first-person indicative plural
- encabeçais indicative plural present
- encabeçam indicative plural present
- encabeçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encabeçar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ka.beˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ka.beˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ka.beˈsa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encabeçar in Portuguese?
encabeçar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).