cabildear
Spanish, verb/kabildeˈaɾ/
cabildear is spelled C-A-B-I-L-D-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabildear is a Spanish verb meaning “to lobby” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Llevar a cabo gestiones ajetreadas y habilidosas para ganarse a la gente en una organización o institución”.
What does cabildear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lobby
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Llevar a cabo gestiones ajetreadas y habilidosas para ganarse a la gente en una organización o institución.
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 cabildear
- cabildeo first-person present singular
- cabildeé first-person preterite singular
- cabildeado participle past
- cabildeando gerund
- cabildeada feminine participle past
- cabildeados masculine participle past
- cabildeadas feminine participle past
- cabildeas indicative informal present
- cabildeás indicative informal present
- cabildea indicative present singular
- cabildeamos first-person indicative plural
- cabildeáis indicative plural present
- cabildean indicative plural present
- cabildeaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cabildeabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cabildeábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cabildeabais imperfect indicative plural
- cabildeaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabildear?
- /kabildeˈaɾ/
- [ka.β̞il̪.d̪eˈaɾ]
- [kaβ̞il̪d̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cabildear in Spanish?
cabildear appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).