contrabalancear
Spanish, verb/kontɾabalanθeˈaɾ/
contrabalancear is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-L-A-N-C-E-A-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written Spanish, the 338,601st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrabalancear is a Spanish verb meaning “to counterbalance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Operar con la balanza hasta lograr el equilibrio de los dos platillos”.
What does contrabalancear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to counterbalance
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Operar con la balanza hasta lograr el equilibrio de los dos platillos. 2. Compensar, contrapesar.
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 contrabalancear
- contrabalanceo first-person present singular
- contrabalanceé first-person preterite singular
- contrabalanceado participle past
- contrabalanceando gerund
- contrabalanceada feminine participle past
- contrabalanceados masculine participle past
- contrabalanceadas feminine participle past
- contrabalanceas indicative informal present
- contrabalanceás indicative informal present
- contrabalancea indicative present singular
- contrabalanceamos first-person indicative plural
- contrabalanceáis indicative plural present
- contrabalancean indicative plural present
- contrabalanceaba first-person imperfect indicative
- contrabalanceabas imperfect indicative second-person
- contrabalanceábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- contrabalanceabais imperfect indicative plural
- contrabalanceaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contrabalancear?
- /kontɾabalanθeˈaɾ/
- [kõn̪.t̪ɾa.β̞a.lãn̟.θeˈaɾ]
- /kontɾabalanseˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contrabalancear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrabalancear in Spanish?
contrabalancear appears about once in every 98 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).