engendrar
/ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/
The verdict
“engendrar” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #79,549 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #79,549
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engendrar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “engendrar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for engendrar is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #79,549 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for engendrar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is engendrar, spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer nascer, criar em si, dentro de si
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “engendrar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-G-E-N-D-R-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ẽ.ʒẽ.ˈdɾaɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.