chancear
Spanish, verb/t͡ʃanθeˈaɾ/
chancear is spelled C-H-A-N-C-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Spanish, the 295,201st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chancear is a Spanish verb meaning “to joke, to kid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Usar de chanzas”.
What does chancear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to joke, to kid
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Usar de chanzas.
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 chancear
- chanceo first-person present singular
- chanceé first-person preterite singular
- chanceado participle past
- chanceando gerund
- chanceada feminine participle past
- chanceados masculine participle past
- chanceadas feminine participle past
- chanceas indicative informal present
- chanceás indicative informal present
- chancea indicative present singular
- chanceamos first-person indicative plural
- chanceáis indicative plural present
- chancean indicative plural present
- chanceaba first-person imperfect indicative
- chanceabas imperfect indicative second-person
- chanceábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- chanceabais imperfect indicative plural
- chanceaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chancear?
- /t͡ʃanθeˈaɾ/
- [t͡ʃãn̟.θeˈaɾ]
- /t͡ʃanseˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chancear in Spanish?
chancear appears about once in every 72 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).