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auscultar

Spanish, verb/auskulˈtaɾ/

auscultar is a Spanish verb meaning “to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Escuchar los sonidos producidos en el interior del cuerpo, posicionando el estetoscopio o la oreja en el…”.

What does auscultar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to auscultate (to listen to internal organs)

  2. 2

    to examine; to probe; to sound out

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Escuchar los sonidos producidos en el interior del cuerpo, posicionando el estetoscopio o la oreja en el punto determinado.

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 auscultar

  • ausculto first-person present singular
  • ausculté first-person preterite singular
  • auscultado participle past
  • auscultando gerund
  • auscultada feminine participle past
  • auscultados masculine participle past
  • auscultadas feminine participle past
  • auscultas indicative informal present
  • auscultás indicative informal present
  • ausculta indicative present singular
  • auscultamos first-person indicative plural
  • auscultáis indicative plural present
  • auscultan indicative plural present
  • auscultaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • auscultabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • auscultábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • auscultabais imperfect indicative plural
  • auscultaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce auscultar?

  • /auskulˈtaɾ/
  • [au̯s.kul̪ˈt̪aɾ]
  • [awskul̪ˈt̪aɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to auscultar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is auscultar in Spanish?

auscultar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).