encaixar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.kaˈʃa(ʁ)/
encaixar is spelled E-N-C-A-I-X-A-R (8 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaixar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fit (to conform to in size and shape)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em caixa ou em encaixe”.
What does encaixar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fit (to conform to in size and shape)
Peças de quebra-cabeça se encaixam.
- 2
to fit (to attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing)
Encaixei uma peça no encaixe.
- 3
to catch the football and hold it tightly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em caixa ou em encaixe 2. embutir 3. fazer um item caber dentro de outro
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 encaixar
- encaixo first-person present singular
- encaixei first-person preterite singular
- encaixado participle past
- encaixares infinitive second-person singular
- encaixarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encaixardes infinitive plural second-person
- encaixarem infinitive plural third-person
- encaixando gerund
- encaixados masculine participle past
- encaixada feminine participle past
- encaixadas feminine participle past
- encaixas indicative present second-person
- encaixa indicative present singular
- encaixamos first-person indicative plural
- encaixais indicative plural present
- encaixam indicative plural present
- encaixava first-person imperfect indicative
- encaixavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encaixar?
- Brazil /ĩ.kaˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.kaˈʃa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kajˈʃa(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 encaixar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encaixar in Portuguese?
encaixar appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).