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cincelar

Spanish, verb/θinθeˈlaɾ/

cincelar is spelled C-I-N-C-E-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish, the 208,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cincelar is a Spanish verb meaning “to chisel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dar forma o tallar con un cincel”.

What does cincelar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to chisel

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Dar forma o tallar con un cincel. 2. Referido a una persona o a una idea abstracta, darle forma, moldearla en la mente.

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 cincelar

  • cincelo first-person present singular
  • cincelé first-person preterite singular
  • cincelado participle past
  • cincelando gerund
  • cincelada feminine participle past
  • cincelados masculine participle past
  • cinceladas feminine participle past
  • cincelas indicative informal present
  • cincelás indicative informal present
  • cincela indicative present singular
  • cincelamos first-person indicative plural
  • cinceláis indicative plural present
  • cincelan indicative plural present
  • cincelaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • cincelabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • cincelábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • cincelabais imperfect indicative plural
  • cincelaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce cincelar?

  • /θinθeˈlaɾ/
  • [θĩn̟.θeˈlaɾ]
  • /sinseˈlaɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to cincelar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cincelar in Spanish?

cincelar appears about once in every 34 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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