engessar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.ʒeˈsa(ʁ)/
engessar is spelled E-N-G-E-S-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Engessar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to plaster (walls, broken limbs etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em gesso (mecanismo de imobilização de ossos quebrados)”.
What does engessar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plaster (walls, broken limbs etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em gesso (mecanismo de imobilização de ossos quebrados).
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 engessar
- engesso first-person present singular
- engessei first-person preterite singular
- engessado participle past
- engessares infinitive second-person singular
- engessarmos first-person infinitive plural
- engessardes infinitive plural second-person
- engessarem infinitive plural third-person
- engessando gerund
- engessados masculine participle past
- engessada feminine participle past
- engessadas feminine participle past
- engessas indicative present second-person
- engessa indicative present singular
- engessamos first-person indicative plural
- engessais indicative plural present
- engessam indicative plural present
- engessava first-person imperfect indicative
- engessavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engessar?
- Brazil /ẽ.ʒeˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.ʒeˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.ʒeˈsa(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 engessar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is engessar in Portuguese?
engessar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).