encalhar
The verdict
“encalhar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,693 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,693
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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) |
Where “encalhar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
encalhar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,693 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for encalhar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is encalhar, spelled E-N-C-A-L-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1causar (embarcação) dar no seco
- 2tocar na margem ou em banco de areia
- 3parar
- 4não obter venda (mercadoria)
- 5não conseguir casamento
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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.
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Using “encalhar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-C-A-L-H-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.