engessado

adj

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The verdict

“engessado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,168 among 2,493 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,168
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,493
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que se engessou, imobilizado por gesso

Key facts for engessado
PropertyValue
Headwordengessado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#73,168
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “engessado” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). engessado lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

engessado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,168 among 2,493 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for engessado, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is engessado, spelled E-N-G-E-S-S-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que se engessou, imobilizado por gesso
  2. 2
    coberto com gesso
  3. 3
    que não pode agir ou ajudar por estar ocupado, com problemas, etc
  4. 4
    que não se pode mudar, fixo

Synonyms

gessado

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "engessado"?
"engessado" is spelled E-N-G-E-S-S-A-D-O.
What does "engessado" mean?
As an adjective, "engessado" means: que se engessou, imobilizado por gesso
What language does "engessado" come from?
"engessado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “engessado”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-N-G-E-S-S-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list