encanar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kaˈna(ʁ)/
encanar is spelled E-N-C-A-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encanar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to conduct (liquid) through a tube, canal or aqueduct; to pipe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does encanar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conduct (liquid) through a tube, canal or aqueduct; to pipe
- 2
to cut grooves in (a column) lengthwise
- 3
to orient in a given direction
- 4
Portugalcolloquialto drink (too much wine)
verb
- 1
to splint (a broken bone)
- 2
Brazilcolloquialto put in prison, to imprison, to incarcerate, to jail
- 3
to acquire characteristics of cane (of corn, etc.)
- 4
Brazilcolloquialto worry, to preoccupy oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encanar
- encano first-person present singular
- encanei first-person preterite singular
- encanado participle past
- encanares infinitive second-person singular
- encanarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encanardes infinitive plural second-person
- encanarem infinitive plural third-person
- encanando gerund
- encanados masculine participle past
- encanada feminine participle past
- encanadas feminine participle past
- encanas indicative present second-person
- encana indicative present singular
- encanamos first-person indicative plural
- encanais indicative plural present
- encanam indicative plural present
- encanava first-person imperfect indicative
- encanavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encanar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kaˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kaˈna(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kaˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encanar in Portuguese?
encanar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).