encanado
Portuguese, noun
encanado is spelled E-N-C-A-N-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 91,721st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encanado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “abrupt narrowing in a stream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of encanar (“to pipe (water), etc.”).
What does encanado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
channeled
- 2
piped (conveyed by a pipe) (of water or another liquid)
água encanada
- 3
in circulation between two openings (of air)
noun
- 1
masculineabrupt narrowing in a stream
adjective
- 1
immobilized (of a bone, by means of a splint or cast)
- 2
Brazilslangin jail, in prison
- 3
Brazilcolloquialworried; preoccupied
verb
- 1
past participle of encanar (“to pipe (water), etc.”)
verb
- 1
past participle of encanar (“to splint, to imprison, etc.”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encanado
- encanada feminine
- encanados masculine plural
- encanadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is encanado in Portuguese?
encanado appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).