encurralar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ku.ʁaˈla(ʁ)/
encurralar is spelled E-N-C-U-R-R-A-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encurralar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lead to a corral (enclosure for animals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “recolher em curral”.
What does encurralar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lead to a corral (enclosure for animals)
- 2
to surround, to besiege, to corner
- 3
to be surrounded
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. recolher em curral 2. encerrar
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 encurralar
- encurralo first-person present singular
- encurralei first-person preterite singular
- encurralado participle past
- encurralares infinitive second-person singular
- encurralarmos first-person infinitive plural
- encurralardes infinitive plural second-person
- encurralarem infinitive plural third-person
- encurralando gerund
- encurralados masculine participle past
- encurralada feminine participle past
- encurraladas feminine participle past
- encurralas indicative present second-person
- encurrala indicative present singular
- encurralamos first-person indicative plural
- encurralais indicative plural present
- encurralam indicative plural present
- encurralava first-person imperfect indicative
- encurralavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encurralar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ku.ʁaˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ku.haˈla(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ku.ʁaˈla(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encurralar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encurralar in Portuguese?
encurralar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).