encharcar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʃaʁˈka(ʁ)/
encharcar is spelled E-N-C-H-A-R-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encharcar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sodden; to soak; to drench (to make or become very wet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “converter em charco”.
What does encharcar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sodden; to soak; to drench (to make or become very wet)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. converter em charco 2. inundar 3. empantanar
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 encharcar
- encharco first-person present singular
- encharquei first-person preterite singular
- encharcado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- encharcares infinitive second-person singular
- encharcarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encharcardes infinitive plural second-person
- encharcarem infinitive plural third-person
- encharcando gerund
- encharcados masculine participle past
- encharcada feminine participle past
- encharcadas feminine participle past
- encharcas indicative present second-person
- encharca indicative present singular
- encharcamos first-person indicative plural
- encharcais indicative plural present
- encharcam indicative plural present
- encharcava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encharcar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʃaʁˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ʃahˈka(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʃaʁˈka(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 encharcar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encharcar in Portuguese?
encharcar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).