encaixotar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kaj.ʃoˈta(ʁ)/
encaixotar is spelled E-N-C-A-I-X-O-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 110,210th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaixotar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to box, to place inside a box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “limitar à frente e à trás por automóveis adversários”.
What does encaixotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to box, to place inside a box
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. limitar à frente e à trás por automóveis adversários 2. colocar em caixa(s)
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 encaixotar
- encaixoto first-person present singular
- encaixotei first-person preterite singular
- encaixotado participle past
- encaixotares infinitive second-person singular
- encaixotarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encaixotardes infinitive plural second-person
- encaixotarem infinitive plural third-person
- encaixotando gerund
- encaixotados masculine participle past
- encaixotada feminine participle past
- encaixotadas feminine participle past
- encaixotas indicative present second-person
- encaixota indicative present singular
- encaixotamos first-person indicative plural
- encaixotais indicative plural present
- encaixotam indicative plural present
- encaixotava first-person imperfect indicative
- encaixotavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encaixotar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kaj.ʃoˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kaɪ̯.ʃoˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kaj.ʃoˈta(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 encaixotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encaixotar in Portuguese?
encaixotar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).