cercar
Spanish, verb/θeɾˈkaɾ/
cercar is spelled C-E-R-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 57,592nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cercar is a Spanish verb meaning “to corral, fence, fence off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Rodear un lugar con una valla, un seto, una alambrada, una muralla, un cerco, una cerca o con cualquier…”.
What does cercar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to corral, fence, fence off
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rodear un lugar con una valla, un seto, una alambrada, una muralla, un cerco, una cerca o con cualquier obstáculo que impida el paso y lo proteja de los extraños. 2. Rodear una plaza fuerte del enemigo y asediarlo. 3. Rodear una muchedumbre a una persona, cosa o lugar. 4. Rodear.
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 cercar
- cerco first-person present singular
- cerqué first-person preterite singular
- cercado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cercando gerund
- cercada feminine participle past
- cercados masculine participle past
- cercadas feminine participle past
- cercas indicative informal present
- cercás indicative informal present
- cerca indicative present singular
- cercamos first-person indicative plural
- cercáis indicative plural present
- cercan indicative plural present
- cercaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cercabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cercábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cercabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cercar?
- /θeɾˈkaɾ/
- [θeɾˈkaɾ]
- /seɾˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cercar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cercar in Spanish?
cercar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).