confabular
Spanish, verb[kõɱfaβ̞uˈlaɾ]
confabular is spelled C-O-N-F-A-B-U-L-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Spanish, the 185,934th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confabular is a Spanish verb meaning “only used in se ... confabular, syntactic variant of confabularse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ponerse de acuerdo dos o mas personas para realizar algún plan, generalmente ilícito”.
What does confabular mean in English?
verb
- 1
only used in se ... confabular, syntactic variant of confabularse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ponerse de acuerdo dos o mas personas para realizar algún plan, generalmente ilícito.
verb: 1. Conversar, hablar entre sí dos o más individuos. 2. Contar fábulas o historias.
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 confabular
- haber confabulado impersonal infinitive
- confabulando impersonal gerund
- habiendo confabulado impersonal gerund
- confabulado impersonal participle
- confabulo first-person singular indicative
- confabulas second-person singular indicative
- confabulás second-person singular vos-form
- confabula third-person singular indicative
- confabulamos first-person plural indicative
- confabuláis second-person plural indicative
- confabulan third-person plural indicative
- confabulaba first-person singular indicative
- confabulabas second-person singular indicative
- confabulábamos first-person plural indicative
- confabulabais second-person plural indicative
- confabulaban third-person plural indicative
- confabulé first-person singular indicative
- confabulaste second-person singular indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confabular?
- [kõɱfaβ̞uˈlaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confabular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confabular in Spanish?
confabular appears about once in every 26 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).