confesar
Spanish, verb/konfeˈsaɾ/
confesar is spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,466th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confesar is a Spanish verb meaning “to confess, to come clean about” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Expresar o admitir la verdad de los propios sentimientos, ideas o acciones, especialmente en el contexto de…”.
What does confesar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confess, to come clean about
- 2
to confess, to come clean
- 3
to hear confession
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Expresar o admitir la verdad de los propios sentimientos, ideas o acciones, especialmente en el contexto de pecados o crímenes cometidos. 2. Revelar una verdad o situación propia antes oculta, secreta o desconocida. 3. Declarar los pecados de uno ante el sacerdote dentro del sacramento de la confesión, para obtener el perdón divino. 4. Oír los pecados de alguien dentro del sacramento de la confesión.
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 confesar
- confieso first-person present singular
- confesé first-person preterite singular
- confesado participle past
- e-ie alternation
- confesando gerund
- confesada feminine participle past
- confesados masculine participle past
- confesadas feminine participle past
- confiesas indicative informal present
- confesás indicative informal present
- confiesa indicative present singular
- confesamos first-person indicative plural
- confesáis indicative plural present
- confiesan indicative plural present
- confesaba first-person imperfect indicative
- confesabas imperfect indicative second-person
- confesábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- confesabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confesar?
- /konfeˈsaɾ/
- [kõɱ.feˈsaɾ]
- [kõɱfeˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confesar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confesar in Spanish?
confesar appears 6.0 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).