encalhar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,693
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
encalhar is aPortugueseverb. It means: causar (embarcação) dar no seco
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encalhar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for encalhar is 8 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #78,693 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for encalhar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is encalhar, spelled E-N-C-A-L-H-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1causar (embarcação) dar no seco
- 2tocar na margem ou em banco de areia
- 3parar
- 4não obter venda (mercadoria)
- 5não conseguir casamento
Antonyms
Frequency rank: #78,693 in Portuguese
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