atracar
Spanish, verb/atɾaˈkaɾ/
atracar is spelled A-T-R-A-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 42,307th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atracar is a Spanish verb meaning “to berth, moor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Arrimar y dejar sujeta una embarcación a un muelle o a otra nave por medio de cabos o cables”.
What does atracar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to berth, moor
- 2
to assault in order to rob, to mug
- 3
colloquialto make out (kiss, touch erotically)
- 4
Latin-Americato harass
- 5
Latin-Americato beat, bash
- 6
to park (a car)
- 7
Latin-Americato stuff (eat and drink in excess)
- 8
to fraud
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arrimar y dejar sujeta una embarcación a un muelle o a otra nave por medio de cabos o cables. 2. Por extensión, acercar y arrimar otras cosas u objetos. 3. Despojar a una persona de su dinero u otros bienes amenazándola con un arma. 4. Arrimarse, acercarse a su pareja para compartir arrumacos y caricias eróticas.
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 atracar
- atraco first-person present singular
- atraqué first-person preterite singular
- atracado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- atracando gerund
- atracada feminine participle past
- atracados masculine participle past
- atracadas feminine participle past
- atracas indicative informal present
- atracás indicative informal present
- atraca indicative present singular
- atracamos first-person indicative plural
- atracáis indicative plural present
- atracan indicative plural present
- atracaba first-person imperfect indicative
- atracabas imperfect indicative second-person
- atracábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- atracabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atracar?
- /atɾaˈkaɾ/
- [a.t̪ɾaˈkaɾ]
- [at̪ɾaˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atracar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atracar in Spanish?
atracar 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).