enovelar
Portuguese, verb/e.no.veˈla(ʁ)/
enovelar is spelled E-N-O-V-E-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese, the 266,412th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enovelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wind into a ball, to coil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar forma de novelo a”.
What does enovelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wind into a ball, to coil
- 2
to tangle, to snarl
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar forma de novelo a
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 enovelar
- enovelo first-person present singular
- enovelei first-person preterite singular
- enovelado participle past
- enovelares infinitive second-person singular
- enovelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- enovelardes infinitive plural second-person
- enovelarem infinitive plural third-person
- enovelando gerund
- enovelados masculine participle past
- enovelada feminine participle past
- enoveladas feminine participle past
- enovelas indicative present second-person
- enovela indicative present singular
- enovelamos first-person indicative plural
- enovelais indicative plural present
- enovelam indicative plural present
- enovelava first-person imperfect indicative
- enovelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enovelar?
- Brazil /e.no.veˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.no.veˈla(h)]
- /e.no.veˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enovelar in Portuguese?
enovelar appears about once in every 98 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).