colar
Spanish, verb/koˈlaɾ/
colar is spelled C-O-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 34,480th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sift, to strain, to filter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Filtrar un líquido, separando los sólidos en el contenidos del medio acuoso”.
What does colar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sift, to strain, to filter
- 2
to prepare coffee
- 3
colloquialto dupe, hoodwink
- 4
colloquialto missay, say wrongly
- 5
colloquialto fall for, fall in love
- 6
colloquialto sneak into, to crash
- 7
to sift through, comb through
verb
- 1
to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Filtrar un líquido, separando los sólidos en el contenidos del medio acuoso. 2. Pasar la ropa lavada por lejía para su blanqueado. 3. Fundir el arrabio para extraer de él el hierro. 4. Introducir algo subrepticiamente donde no está permitido o previsto.
verb: 1. Conceder canónicamente un beneficio eclesiástico.
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 colar
- cuelo first-person present singular
- colé first-person preterite singular
- colado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- colando gerund
- colada feminine participle past
- colados masculine participle past
- coladas feminine participle past
- cuelas indicative informal present
- colás indicative informal present
- cuela indicative present singular
- colamos first-person indicative plural
- coláis indicative plural present
- cuelan indicative plural present
- colaba first-person imperfect indicative
- colabas imperfect indicative second-person
- colábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- colabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colar?
- /koˈlaɾ/
- [koˈlaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colar in Spanish?
colar appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).