avocar
Spanish, verb/aboˈkaɾ/
avocar is spelled A-V-O-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish, the 257,601st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avocar is a Spanish verb meaning “to advocate; to hear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Disponer un tribunal de alzada de una causa que obraba en manos de uno inferior competente”.
What does avocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to advocate; to hear
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Disponer un tribunal de alzada de una causa que obraba en manos de uno inferior competente
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 avocar
- avoco first-person present singular
- avoqué first-person preterite singular
- avocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- avocando gerund
- avocada feminine participle past
- avocados masculine participle past
- avocadas feminine participle past
- avocas indicative informal present
- avocás indicative informal present
- avoca indicative present singular
- avocamos first-person indicative plural
- avocáis indicative plural present
- avocan indicative plural present
- avocaba first-person imperfect indicative
- avocabas imperfect indicative second-person
- avocábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- avocabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avocar?
- /aboˈkaɾ/
- [a.β̞oˈkaɾ]
- [aβ̞oˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avocar in Spanish?
avocar appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).