enlaçar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.laˈsa(ʁ)/
enlaçar is spelled E-N-L-A-Ç-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 157,828th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enlaçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to entwine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sujeitar com laço; laçar”.
What does enlaçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to entwine
- 2
to lace
- 3
to embrace
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sujeitar com laço; laçar 2. atar, prender 3. travar 4. abraçar
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 enlaçar
- enlaço first-person present singular
- enlacei first-person preterite singular
- enlaçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- enlaçares infinitive second-person singular
- enlaçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enlaçardes infinitive plural second-person
- enlaçarem infinitive plural third-person
- enlaçando gerund
- enlaçados masculine participle past
- enlaçada feminine participle past
- enlaçadas feminine participle past
- enlaças indicative present second-person
- enlaça indicative present singular
- enlaçamos first-person indicative plural
- enlaçais indicative plural present
- enlaçam indicative plural present
- enlaçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enlaçar?
- Brazil /ẽ.laˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.laˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.laˈsa(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 enlaçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enlaçar in Portuguese?
enlaçar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).