encabeçar

verb

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The verdict

“encabeçar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,439 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,439
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,493
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - liderar, assumir a posição de cabeça (chefe)

Key facts for encabeçar
PropertyValue
Headwordencabeçar
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters9
Frequency rank#67,439
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “encabeçar” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). encabeçar lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

encabeçar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,439 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for encabeçar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is encabeçar, spelled E-N-C-A-B-E-Ç-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    liderar, assumir a posição de cabeça (chefe)
  2. 2
    vir à frente

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "encabeçar"?
"encabeçar" is spelled E-N-C-A-B-E-Ç-A-R.
What does "encabeçar" mean?
As a verb, "encabeçar" means: liderar, assumir a posição de cabeça (chefe)
What language does "encabeçar" come from?
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Using “encabeçar”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-C-A-B-E-Ç-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list