aplacar
Spanish, verb/aplaˈkaɾ/
aplacar is spelled A-P-L-A-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,389th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aplacar is a Spanish verb meaning “appease, placate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Calmar o apaciguar el ánimo violento o excitado de una persona o grupo”.
What does aplacar mean in English?
verb
- 1
appease, placate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Calmar o apaciguar el ánimo violento o excitado de una persona o grupo.
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 aplacar
- aplaco first-person present singular
- aplaqué first-person preterite singular
- aplacado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- aplacando gerund
- aplacada feminine participle past
- aplacados masculine participle past
- aplacadas feminine participle past
- aplacas indicative informal present
- aplacás indicative informal present
- aplaca indicative present singular
- aplacamos first-person indicative plural
- aplacáis indicative plural present
- aplacan indicative plural present
- aplacaba first-person imperfect indicative
- aplacabas imperfect indicative second-person
- aplacábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- aplacabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aplacar?
- /aplaˈkaɾ/
- [a.plaˈkaɾ]
- [aplaˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aplacar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aplacar in Spanish?
aplacar 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).