encrencar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.kɾẽˈka(ʁ)/
encrencar is spelled E-N-C-R-E-N-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 113,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encrencar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to complicate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colocar ou colocar-se em dificuldades”.
What does encrencar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to complicate
- 2
to get (someone) into trouble
- 3
to get (oneself) into trouble
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colocar ou colocar-se em dificuldades
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 encrencar
- encrenco first-person present singular
- encrenquei first-person preterite singular
- encrencado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- encrencares infinitive second-person singular
- encrencarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encrencardes infinitive plural second-person
- encrencarem infinitive plural third-person
- encrencando gerund
- encrencados masculine participle past
- encrencada feminine participle past
- encrencadas feminine participle past
- encrencas indicative present second-person
- encrenca indicative present singular
- encrencamos first-person indicative plural
- encrencais indicative plural present
- encrencam indicative plural present
- encrencava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encrencar?
- Brazil /ẽ.kɾẽˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.kɾẽˈka(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.kɾẽˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is encrencar in Portuguese?
encrencar appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).