compactar
Spanish, verb/kompaɡˈtaɾ/
compactar is spelled C-O-M-P-A-C-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 128,005th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compactar is a Spanish verb meaning “to compact (make more dense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer o volver algo compacto (denso, unificado en sus piezas, con más contenido en menos espacio)”.
What does compactar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to compact (make more dense)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer o volver algo compacto (denso, unificado en sus piezas, con más contenido en menos espacio).
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 compactar
- compacto first-person present singular
- compacté first-person preterite singular
- compactado participle past
- compactando gerund
- compactada feminine participle past
- compactados masculine participle past
- compactadas feminine participle past
- compactas indicative informal present
- compactás indicative informal present
- compacta indicative present singular
- compactamos first-person indicative plural
- compactáis indicative plural present
- compactan indicative plural present
- compactaba first-person imperfect indicative
- compactabas imperfect indicative second-person
- compactábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- compactabais imperfect indicative plural
- compactaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce compactar?
- /kompaɡˈtaɾ/
- [kõm.paɣ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
- [kõmpakˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to compactar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is compactar in Spanish?
compactar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).