adulterar
Spanish, verb/adulteˈɾaɾ/
adulterar is spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 72,568th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adulterar is a Spanish verb meaning “to adulterate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Alterar la calidad o pureza de algo por la adición de una sustancia extraña”.
What does adulterar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adulterate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Alterar la calidad o pureza de algo por la adición de una sustancia extraña. 2. Falsificar o manipular la verdad. 3. Cometer adulterio, faltar a la fidelidad conyugal.
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 adulterar
- adultero first-person present singular
- adulteré first-person preterite singular
- adulterado participle past
- adulterando gerund
- adulterada feminine participle past
- adulterados masculine participle past
- adulteradas feminine participle past
- adulteras indicative informal present
- adulterás indicative informal present
- adultera indicative present singular
- adulteramos first-person indicative plural
- adulteráis indicative plural present
- adulteran indicative plural present
- adulteraba first-person imperfect indicative
- adulterabas imperfect indicative second-person
- adulterábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- adulterabais imperfect indicative plural
- adulteraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adulterar?
- /adulteˈɾaɾ/
- [a.ð̞ul̪.t̪eˈɾaɾ]
- [að̞ul̪t̪eˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adulterar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adulterar in Spanish?
adulterar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).