ahondar
Spanish, verb/aonˈdaɾ/
ahondar is spelled A-H-O-N-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 30,367th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ahondar is a Spanish verb meaning “to deepen, to dig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer más honda una cavidad o agujero”.
What does ahondar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deepen, to dig
- 2
to delve deeply
ahondar en un tema
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer más honda una cavidad o agujero. 2. Por extensión, cavar profundizando. 3. Introducir una cosa muy dentro de otra. 4. Escudriñar lo más profundo o recóndito de un asunto.
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 ahondar
- ahondo first-person present singular
- ahondé first-person preterite singular
- ahondado participle past
- ahondando gerund
- ahondada feminine participle past
- ahondados masculine participle past
- ahondadas feminine participle past
- ahondas indicative informal present
- ahondás indicative informal present
- ahonda indicative present singular
- ahondamos first-person indicative plural
- ahondáis indicative plural present
- ahondan indicative plural present
- ahondaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ahondabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ahondábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ahondabais imperfect indicative plural
- ahondaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ahondar?
- /aonˈdaɾ/
- [a.õn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
- [aõn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ahondar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ahondar in Spanish?
ahondar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).