encarregado

noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,615

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

encarregado is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a pessoa que está responsável por um trabalho ou por um grupo de trabalhadores It ranks #8,615 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with encarregar.

Key facts for encarregado
PropertyValue
Headwordencarregado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#8,615
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of encarregado in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for encarregado is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #8,615 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "a pessoa que está responsável por um trabalho ou por um grupo de trabalhadores".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for encarregado, with forms such as "ecnarregado", "enacrregado", and "encaregado". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "encarregar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is encarregado, spelled E-N-C-A-R-R-E-G-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    a pessoa que está responsável por um trabalho ou por um grupo de trabalhadores

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecnarregado,enacrregado,encaregado,encarergado,encarreagdo,encarregaddo,encarregaod,encarregdao,encarreggado,encarrgeado,enccarregado,encraregado,enncarregado,necarregado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for encarregado

Misspelling Variants of "encarregado"

ecnarregado11enacrregado11encaregado10encarergado11encarreagdo11encarregaddo12encarregaod11encarregdao11
Misspelling Variants of "encarregado"

Frequency rank: #8,615 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "encarregado"?
"encarregado" is spelled E-N-C-A-R-R-E-G-A-D-O.
What does "encarregado" mean?
As a noun, "encarregado" means: a pessoa que está responsável por um trabalho ou por um grupo de trabalhadores
What words are commonly confused with "encarregado"?
"encarregado" is commonly confused with "encarregar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "encarregado" come from?
"encarregado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.