encaracolar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/
encaracolar is spelled E-N-C-A-R-A-C-O-L-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encaracolar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to curl (to make into a curl or spiral)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “torcer em forma de caracol”.
What does encaracolar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to curl (to make into a curl or spiral)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. torcer em forma de caracol
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 encaracolar
- encaracolo first-person present singular
- encaracolei first-person preterite singular
- encaracolado participle past
- encaracolares infinitive second-person singular
- encaracolarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encaracolardes infinitive plural second-person
- encaracolarem infinitive plural third-person
- encaracolando gerund
- encaracolados masculine participle past
- encaracolada feminine participle past
- encaracoladas feminine participle past
- encaracolas indicative present second-person
- encaracola indicative present singular
- encaracolamos first-person indicative plural
- encaracolais indicative plural present
- encaracolam indicative plural present
- encaracolava first-person imperfect indicative
- encaracolavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encaracolar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ka.ɾa.koˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encaracolar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encaracolar in Portuguese?
encaracolar appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).