atraer
Spanish, verb/atɾaˈeɾ/
atraer is spelled A-T-R-A-E-R (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,928th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atraer is a Spanish verb meaning “to attract, to lure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acercar y retener un cuerpo mediante el electromagnetismo u otra fuerza”.
What does atraer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attract, to lure
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Acercar y retener un cuerpo mediante el electromagnetismo u otra fuerza. 2. Por poseer cierta personalidad o carácter, hacer que las personas o animales acudan a uno. 3. Hacer una circunstancia o hecho, que se produzca algo determinado. 4. Provocar simpatía y afecto.
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 atraer
- atraigo first-person present singular
- atraje first-person preterite singular
- atraído participle past
- atrayendo gerund
- atraída feminine participle past
- atraídos masculine participle past
- atraídas feminine participle past
- atraes indicative informal present
- atraés indicative informal present
- atrae indicative present singular
- atraemos first-person indicative plural
- atraéis indicative plural present
- atraen indicative plural present
- atraía first-person imperfect indicative
- atraías imperfect indicative second-person
- atraíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- atraíais imperfect indicative plural
- atraían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atraer?
- /atɾaˈeɾ/
- [a.t̪ɾaˈeɾ]
- [at̪ɾaˈeɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atraer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atraer in Spanish?
atraer appears 13 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).