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encarcerar

Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kaʁ.seˈɾa(ʁ)/

encarcerar is spelled E-N-C-A-R-C-E-R-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encarcerar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to incarcerate (to lock away in prison)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does encarcerar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to incarcerate (to lock away in prison)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of encarcerar

  • encarcero first-person present singular
  • encarcerei first-person preterite singular
  • encarcerado participle past
  • encarcerares infinitive second-person singular
  • encarcerarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • encarcerardes infinitive plural second-person
  • encarcerarem infinitive plural third-person
  • encarcerando gerund
  • encarcerados masculine participle past
  • encarcerada feminine participle past
  • encarceradas feminine participle past
  • encarceras indicative present second-person
  • encarcera indicative present singular
  • encarceramos first-person indicative plural
  • encarcerais indicative plural present
  • encarceram indicative plural present
  • encarcerava first-person imperfect indicative
  • encarceravas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce encarcerar?

  • Brazil /ẽ.kaʁ.seˈɾa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ẽ.kah.seˈɾa(h)]
  • Brazil /ĩ.kaʁ.seˈɾa(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 encarcerar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is encarcerar in Portuguese?

encarcerar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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