encalhar
The verdict
“encalhar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,693 among 1,279 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,693
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - causar (embarcação) dar no seco
Corpus desk
Index PT-encalhar · encalhar · Portuguese
encalhar · rank #78,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,693
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH emanar
Nearest frequency peer: emanar (-5 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “encalhar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ecuménico
ecuménico
21,320 corpus weight
- emanar
emanar
21,313 corpus weight
- encalhar
encalhar
21,308 corpus weight
- equino
equino
21,299 corpus weight
- espantosame…
espantosamente
21,288 corpus weight
- espoleta
espoleta
21,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “encalhar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “encalhar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
encalhar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,693 among 1,279 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how encalhar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O capitão descuidado encalhou o navio.
Por falta de direção, o barco encalhou na praia oeste da ilha.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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