encarcerado
Portuguese, adjective/ẽ.kaʁ.seˈɾa.du/
encarcerado is spelled E-N-C-A-R-C-E-R-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,488th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encarcerado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “incarcerated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of encarcerar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preso em cárcere”.
What does encarcerado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
incarcerated
- 2
arrested
- 3
cloistered
verb
- 1
past participle of encarcerar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. preso em cárcere 2. preso 3. enclausurado
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 encarcerado
- encarcerada feminine
- encarcerados masculine plural
- encarceradas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encarcerado?
- Brazil /ẽ.kaʁ.seˈɾa.du/
- Brazil [ẽ.kah.seˈɾa.du]
- Brazil /ĩ.kaʁ.seˈɾa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encarcerado in Portuguese?
encarcerado appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).