chapotear
Spanish, verb/t͡ʃapoteˈaɾ/
chapotear is spelled C-H-A-P-O-T-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 136,710th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapotear is a Spanish verb meaning “splash, splatter, dabble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sonar el agua o el lodo al agitarlos con los pies o las manos o al pisarlos”.
What does chapotear mean in English?
verb
- 1
splash, splatter, dabble
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sonar el agua o el lodo al agitarlos con los pies o las manos o al pisarlos. 2. Mojar algo con una esponja o paño.
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 chapotear
- chapoteo first-person present singular
- chapoteé first-person preterite singular
- chapoteado participle past
- chapoteando gerund
- chapoteada feminine participle past
- chapoteados masculine participle past
- chapoteadas feminine participle past
- chapoteas indicative informal present
- chapoteás indicative informal present
- chapotea indicative present singular
- chapoteamos first-person indicative plural
- chapoteáis indicative plural present
- chapotean indicative plural present
- chapoteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- chapoteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- chapoteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- chapoteabais imperfect indicative plural
- chapoteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapotear?
- /t͡ʃapoteˈaɾ/
- [t͡ʃa.po.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [t͡ʃapot̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chapotear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chapotear in Spanish?
chapotear appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).