carcomer
Spanish, verb/kaɾkoˈmeɾ/
carcomer is spelled C-A-R-C-O-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish, the 271,310th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carcomer is a Spanish verb meaning “to eat away (to erode or corrode gradually)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Consumir o roer la madera diversos tipos de insectos (las carcomas)”.
What does carcomer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to eat away (to erode or corrode gradually)
- 2
to waste away, to be consumed
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Consumir o roer la madera diversos tipos de insectos (las carcomas). 2. Deteriorar o consumir algo o a alguien poco a poco hacia su ruina.
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 carcomer
- carcomo first-person present singular
- carcomí first-person preterite singular
- carcomido participle past
- carcomiendo gerund
- carcomida feminine participle past
- carcomidos masculine participle past
- carcomidas feminine participle past
- carcomes indicative informal present
- carcomés indicative informal present
- carcome indicative present singular
- carcomemos first-person indicative plural
- carcoméis indicative plural present
- carcomen indicative plural present
- carcomía first-person imperfect indicative
- carcomías imperfect indicative second-person
- carcomíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- carcomíais imperfect indicative plural
- carcomían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carcomer?
- /kaɾkoˈmeɾ/
- [kaɾ.koˈmeɾ]
- [kaɾkoˈmeɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carcomer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carcomer in Spanish?
carcomer appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).