acentuar
Spanish, verb/aθenˈtwaɾ/
acentuar is spelled A-C-E-N-T-U-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 42,860th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acentuar is a Spanish verb meaning “to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pronunciar una sílaba con mayor intensidad”.
What does acentuar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to accentuate (to pronounce with vocal stress)
- 2
to accentuate (to mark with a written accent)
- 3
to accentuate, to emphasize
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pronunciar una sílaba con mayor intensidad. 2. Poner tilde o acento ortográfico a una letra. 3. Expresar algo con énfasis, a menudo lentamente, para dejarlo claro o hacerlo memorable. 4. Otorgar una característica que singulariza o llama la atención.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acentuar
- acentúo first-person present singular
- acentué first-person preterite singular
- acentuado participle past
- u-ú alternation
- acentuando gerund
- acentuada feminine participle past
- acentuados masculine participle past
- acentuadas feminine participle past
- acentúas indicative informal present
- acentuás indicative informal present
- acentúa indicative present singular
- acentuamos first-person indicative plural
- acentuáis indicative plural present
- acentúan indicative plural present
- acentuaba first-person imperfect indicative
- acentuabas imperfect indicative second-person
- acentuábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- acentuabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acentuar?
- /aθenˈtwaɾ/
- [a.θẽn̪ˈt̪waɾ]
- /aθentuˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acentuar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acentuar in Spanish?
acentuar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).