acicalar
Spanish, verb/aθikaˈlaɾ/
acicalar is spelled A-C-I-C-A-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written Spanish, the 227,226th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acicalar is a Spanish verb meaning “to groom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Limpiar con esmero, bruñir”.
What does acicalar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to groom
- 2
to polish, to preen
- 3
to smarten oneself up, to preen oneself, to spruce up oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Limpiar con esmero, bruñir. 2. Pulir, adornar, afeitar, aderezar con esmero o afectación el rostro, peinado, etc. 3. Aguzar, afilar. 4. Dar el último pulimento a una pared de sillería retundiendo sus juntas o bien revocar la mampostería y también pintar y señalar los tendeles en las paredes de ladrillo. La frase acicalar las juntas equivale a cogerlas o tomarlas.
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 acicalar
- acicalo first-person present singular
- acicalé first-person preterite singular
- acicalado participle past
- acicalando gerund
- acicalada feminine participle past
- acicalados masculine participle past
- acicaladas feminine participle past
- acicalas indicative informal present
- acicalás indicative informal present
- acicala indicative present singular
- acicalamos first-person indicative plural
- acicaláis indicative plural present
- acicalan indicative plural present
- acicalaba first-person imperfect indicative
- acicalabas imperfect indicative second-person
- acicalábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- acicalabais imperfect indicative plural
- acicalaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acicalar?
- /aθikaˈlaɾ/
- [a.θi.kaˈlaɾ]
- /asikaˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acicalar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acicalar in Spanish?
acicalar appears about once in every 41 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).