encravar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kɾaˈva(ʁ)/
encravar is spelled E-N-C-R-A-V-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encravar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stick into (to push something pointy into something such that it becomes stuck)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segurar com prego ou cravo; pregar, espetar”.
What does encravar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stick into (to push something pointy into something such that it becomes stuck)
- 2
to nail; to nail down (to attach something with nails)
- 3
to encrust (to inset gems or similar into an object)
- 4
to become ingrown
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segurar com prego ou cravo; pregar, espetar 2. ferir com cravos (o pé da besta) 3. embutir, engastar 4. embeber
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 encravar
- encravo first-person present singular
- encravei first-person preterite singular
- encravado participle past
- encravares infinitive second-person singular
- encravarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encravardes infinitive plural second-person
- encravarem infinitive plural third-person
- encravando gerund
- encravados masculine participle past
- encravada feminine participle past
- encravadas feminine participle past
- encravas indicative present second-person
- encrava indicative present singular
- encravamos first-person indicative plural
- encravais indicative plural present
- encravam indicative plural present
- encravava first-person imperfect indicative
- encravavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encravar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kɾaˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kɾaˈva(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kɾaˈva(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encravar in Portuguese?
encravar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).