confiscar
Spanish, verb/konfisˈkaɾ/
confiscar is spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 43,425th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confiscar is a Spanish verb meaning “to confiscate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Apoderarse el Estado de los bienes de una persona”.
What does confiscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confiscate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apoderarse el Estado de los bienes de una persona.
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 confiscar
- confisco first-person present singular
- confisqué first-person preterite singular
- confiscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- confiscando gerund
- confiscada feminine participle past
- confiscados masculine participle past
- confiscadas feminine participle past
- confiscas indicative informal present
- confiscás indicative informal present
- confisca indicative present singular
- confiscamos first-person indicative plural
- confiscáis indicative plural present
- confiscan indicative plural present
- confiscaba first-person imperfect indicative
- confiscabas imperfect indicative second-person
- confiscábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- confiscabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confiscar?
- /konfisˈkaɾ/
- [kõɱ.fisˈkaɾ]
- [kõɱfisˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to confiscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confiscar in Spanish?
confiscar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).