encapar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kaˈpa(ʁ)/
encapar is spelled E-N-C-A-P-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 120,815th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encapar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to put a cover on a book” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cobrir com capa”.
What does encapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put a cover on a book
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cobrir com capa 2. revestir, embrulhar 3. encobrir 4. vestir (o pênis) com preservativo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of encapar
- encapo first-person present singular
- encapei first-person preterite singular
- encapado participle past
- encapares infinitive second-person singular
- encaparmos first-person infinitive plural
- encapardes infinitive plural second-person
- encaparem infinitive plural third-person
- encapando gerund
- encapados masculine participle past
- encapada feminine participle past
- encapadas feminine participle past
- encapas indicative present second-person
- encapa indicative present singular
- encapamos first-person indicative plural
- encapais indicative plural present
- encapam indicative plural present
- encapava first-person imperfect indicative
- encapavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encapar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kaˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kaˈpa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kaˈpa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encapar in Portuguese?
encapar appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).