cancelar
Spanish, verb/kanθeˈlaɾ/
cancelar is spelled C-A-N-C-E-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,116th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cancelar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cancel, call off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Anular, deshacer una orden”.
What does cancelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cancel, call off
- 2
to cancel (a person deemed unacceptable)
- 3
to forget about; to scrap
- 4
to liquidate (a debt)
- 5
to pay
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Anular, deshacer una orden. 2. Borrar, eliminar un registro o una nota. 3. Terminar de pagar un préstamo o una deuda. 4. Finalizar anticipadamente un proceso.
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 cancelar
- cancelo first-person present singular
- cancelé first-person preterite singular
- cancelado participle past
- cancelando gerund
- cancelada feminine participle past
- cancelados masculine participle past
- canceladas feminine participle past
- cancelas indicative informal present
- cancelás indicative informal present
- cancela indicative present singular
- cancelamos first-person indicative plural
- canceláis indicative plural present
- cancelan indicative plural present
- cancelaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cancelabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cancelábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cancelabais imperfect indicative plural
- cancelaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cancelar?
- /kanθeˈlaɾ/
- [kãn̟.θeˈlaɾ]
- /kanseˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cancelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cancelar in Spanish?
cancelar appears 10 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).