bracear
Spanish, verb/bɾaθeˈaɾ/
bracear is spelled B-R-A-C-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish, the 213,186th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bracear is a Spanish verb meaning “to stroke (while swimming)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mover repetidamente los brazos, por lo común con esfuerzo o gallardía.”.
What does bracear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stroke (while swimming)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mover repetidamente los brazos, por lo común con esfuerzo o gallardía.. 2. Nadar sacando los brazos fuera del agua y volteándolos hacia adelante. 3. Esforzarse, forcejear. 4. Dicho de un caballo: doblar los brazos con soltura al andar, levantándolos de manera que parezca que toca la cincha con ellos.
verb: 1. Halar de las brazas por una u otra banda para hacer girar, las vergas horizontalmente hasta situarlas en el plano o dirección que convenga según el ángulo que hayan de formar con la del viento. 2. Medir con la braza.
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 bracear
- braceo first-person present singular
- braceé first-person preterite singular
- braceado participle past
- braceando gerund
- braceada feminine participle past
- braceados masculine participle past
- braceadas feminine participle past
- braceas indicative informal present
- braceás indicative informal present
- bracea indicative present singular
- braceamos first-person indicative plural
- braceáis indicative plural present
- bracean indicative plural present
- braceaba first-person imperfect indicative
- braceabas imperfect indicative second-person
- braceábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- braceabais imperfect indicative plural
- braceaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bracear?
- /bɾaθeˈaɾ/
- [bɾa.θeˈaɾ]
- /bɾaseˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bracear in Spanish?
bracear appears about once in every 35 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).