encaçapar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ka.saˈpa(ʁ)/
encaçapar is spelled E-N-C-A-Ç-A-P-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese, the 146,979th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaçapar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pocket (cause a ball to go into a pocket of a billiard table)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar na caçapa”.
What does encaçapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pocket (cause a ball to go into a pocket of a billiard table)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar na caçapa 2. colocar no buraco 3. bater em
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 encaçapar
- encaçapo first-person present singular
- encaçapei first-person preterite singular
- encaçapado participle past
- encaçapares infinitive second-person singular
- encaçaparmos first-person infinitive plural
- encaçapardes infinitive plural second-person
- encaçaparem infinitive plural third-person
- encaçapando gerund
- encaçapados masculine participle past
- encaçapada feminine participle past
- encaçapadas feminine participle past
- encaçapas indicative present second-person
- encaçapa indicative present singular
- encaçapamos first-person indicative plural
- encaçapais indicative plural present
- encaçapam indicative plural present
- encaçapava first-person imperfect indicative
- encaçapavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encaçapar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ka.saˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ka.saˈpa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ka.saˈpa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encaçapar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encaçapar in Portuguese?
encaçapar appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).