encestar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.sesˈta(ʁ)/
encestar is spelled E-N-C-E-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 125,896th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encestar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to throw something into a basket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em cesto”.
What does encestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw something into a basket
- 2
to score a basket
- 3
to punch out (to repeatedly hit someone or something)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em cesto
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 encestar
- encesto first-person present singular
- encestei first-person preterite singular
- encestado participle past
- encestares infinitive second-person singular
- encestarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encestardes infinitive plural second-person
- encestarem infinitive plural third-person
- encestando gerund
- encestados masculine participle past
- encestada feminine participle past
- encestadas feminine participle past
- encestas indicative present second-person
- encesta indicative present singular
- encestamos first-person indicative plural
- encestais indicative plural present
- encestam indicative plural present
- encestava first-person imperfect indicative
- encestavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encestar?
- Brazil /ẽ.sesˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.sesˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.sesˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encestar in Portuguese?
encestar appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).