captura
Spanish, noun
captura is spelled C-A-P-T-U-R-A (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,406th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Captura is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “capture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of capturar. With an accent, capturá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of capturar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y efecto de capturar”.
What does captura mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecapture
- 2
femininecatch (that which is captured or caught)
- 3
femininescreenshot
Hazle (una) captura.
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of capturar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y efecto de capturar. 2. La captura de alguien perseguido.
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 captura
- capturas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to captura
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is captura in Spanish?
captura appears 18 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).