cortocircuitar
Spanish, verb/koɾtoθiɾkwiˈtaɾ/
cortocircuitar is spelled C-O-R-T-O-C-I-R-C-U-I-T-A-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Spanish, the 254,909th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cortocircuitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to short circuit (cause a short circuit in)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Causar o hacer cortocircuito (circulación accidental de corriente eléctrica por fallo de un circuito)”.
What does cortocircuitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to short circuit (cause a short circuit in)
- 2
to experience a short circuit
- 3
to hamper; to impede; to block
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causar o hacer cortocircuito (circulación accidental de corriente eléctrica por fallo de un circuito). 2. Hacer que algo no funcione o se bloquee, o que alguien o algo entre en conflicto.
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 cortocircuitar
- cortocircuito first-person present singular
- cortocircuité first-person preterite singular
- cortocircuitado participle past
- cortocircuitando gerund
- cortocircuitada feminine participle past
- cortocircuitados masculine participle past
- cortocircuitadas feminine participle past
- cortocircuitas indicative informal present
- cortocircuitás indicative informal present
- cortocircuita indicative present singular
- cortocircuitamos first-person indicative plural
- cortocircuitáis indicative plural present
- cortocircuitan indicative plural present
- cortocircuitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cortocircuitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cortocircuitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cortocircuitabais imperfect indicative plural
- cortocircuitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cortocircuitar?
- /koɾtoθiɾkwiˈtaɾ/
- [koɾ.t̪o.θiɾ.kwiˈt̪aɾ]
- /koɾtosiɾkwiˈtaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cortocircuitar in Spanish?
cortocircuitar appears about once in every 52 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).