asaltar
Spanish, verb/asalˈtaɾ/
asaltar is spelled A-S-A-L-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 21,247th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asaltar is a Spanish verb meaning “to assault, to assail, to attack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tomar por sorpresa una persona o posición”.
What does asaltar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assault, to assail, to attack
- 2
to storm
- 3
to strike suddenly (a thought, an illness, death, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomar por sorpresa una persona o posición. 2. Sustraer dinero u otros bienes empleando un arma blanca o de fuego para amenazar de muerte.
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 asaltar
- asalto first-person present singular
- asalté first-person preterite singular
- asaltado participle past
- asaltando gerund
- asaltada feminine participle past
- asaltados masculine participle past
- asaltadas feminine participle past
- asaltas indicative informal present
- asaltás indicative informal present
- asalta indicative present singular
- asaltamos first-person indicative plural
- asaltáis indicative plural present
- asaltan indicative plural present
- asaltaba first-person imperfect indicative
- asaltabas imperfect indicative second-person
- asaltábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- asaltabais imperfect indicative plural
- asaltaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce asaltar?
- /asalˈtaɾ/
- [a.sal̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [asal̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to asaltar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is asaltar in Spanish?
asaltar appears 2.2 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).