engessar
/ẽ.ʒɨ.ˈsaɾ/
The verdict
“engessar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pôr em gesso (mecanismo de imobilização de ossos quebrados).
Corpus desk
Index PT-engessar · engessar · Portuguese
engessar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engessar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ẽ.ʒɨ.ˈsaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “engessar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
engessar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ẽ.ʒɨ.ˈsaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pôr em gesso (mecanismo de imobilização de ossos quebrados).".
No misspelling variants are generated for engessar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is engessar, spelled E-N-G-E-S-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1pôr em gesso (mecanismo de imobilização de ossos quebrados).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engessar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O médico engessou o braço do acidentado.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.