encostar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kosˈta(ʁ)/
encostar is spelled E-N-C-O-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encostar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to support (physically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “apoiar”.
What does encostar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to support (physically)
- 2
to touch
- 3
to close (a door) without locking it
- 4
to scrounge off someone
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. apoiar 2. arrimar
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 encostar
- encosto first-person present singular
- encostei first-person preterite singular
- encostado participle past
- encostares infinitive second-person singular
- encostarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encostardes infinitive plural second-person
- encostarem infinitive plural third-person
- encostando gerund
- encostados masculine participle past
- encostada feminine participle past
- encostadas feminine participle past
- encostas indicative present second-person
- encosta indicative present singular
- encostamos first-person indicative plural
- encostais indicative plural present
- encostam indicative plural present
- encostava first-person imperfect indicative
- encostavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encostar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kosˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kosˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kosˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encostar in Portuguese?
encostar appears 3.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).