encrave
Portuguese, noun/ẽˈkɾa.vi/
encrave is spelled E-N-C-R-A-V-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese, the 169,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encrave is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “synonym of enclave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of encravar.
What does encrave mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of enclave
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of encrave
- encraves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encrave?
- Brazil /ẽˈkɾa.vi/
- Brazil /ĩˈkɾa.vi/
- Portugal /ẽˈkɾa.vɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encrave in Portuguese?
encrave appears about once in every 35 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).