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
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).