encontrar
/ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/
The verdict
“encontrar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #460
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ir de encontro a
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | encontrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “encontrar” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around encontrar (IPA /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #460 among 2,493 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for encontrar, with forms such as "ecnontrar", "enccontrar", and "encnotrar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "encontro", "encostar", "encantar", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is encontrar, spelled E-N-C-O-N-T-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1ir de encontro a
- 2descobrir
- 3achar
- 4ter contato (com pessoa) socialmente
- 5reunir(-se)
- 6estar presente em um determinado local, ou, sítio físico
- 7estar presente, ser parte componente de algo de forma incidental ou não
- 8estar em um determinado estado físico ou emocional
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnontrar
- enccontrar
- encnotrar
- enconntrar
- enconrtar
- encontarr
- encontrarr
- encontrra
- encontrrar
- enconttrar
- encotnrar
- enncontrar
- enocntrar
- necontrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encontrar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “encontrar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-C-O-N-T-R-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ẽ.kõ.ˈtɾaɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “encontro” - see the side-by-side comparison. encontrar vs encontro
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.