clavarla
Spanish, verb/klaˈbaɾla/
clavarla is spelled C-L-A-V-A-R-L-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 150,504th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clavarla is a Spanish verb meaning “to nail it, to hit the nail on the head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does clavarla mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto nail it, to hit the nail on the head
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of clavarla
- la clavo first-person present singular
- la clavé first-person preterite singular
- la clavado participle past
- clavándola gerund
- la clavada feminine participle past
- la clavados masculine participle past
- la clavadas feminine participle past
- la clavas indicative informal present
- la clavás indicative informal present
- la clava indicative present singular
- la clavamos first-person indicative plural
- la claváis indicative plural present
- la clavan indicative plural present
- la clavaba first-person imperfect indicative
- la clavabas imperfect indicative second-person
- la clavábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- la clavabais imperfect indicative plural
- la clavaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clavarla?
- /klaˈbaɾla/
- [klaˈβ̞aɾ.la]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is clavarla in Spanish?
clavarla appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).