cotejar
Spanish, verb/koteˈxaɾ/
cotejar is spelled C-O-T-E-J-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 50,132nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cotejar is a Spanish verb meaning “to collate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de…”.
What does cotejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to collate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Confrontar o comparar dos o más cosas para apreciar sus semejanzas y diferencias, especialmente hablando de una copia con su original.
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 cotejar
- cotejo first-person present singular
- cotejé first-person preterite singular
- cotejado participle past
- cotejando gerund
- cotejada feminine participle past
- cotejados masculine participle past
- cotejadas feminine participle past
- cotejas indicative informal present
- cotejás indicative informal present
- coteja indicative present singular
- cotejamos first-person indicative plural
- cotejáis indicative plural present
- cotejan indicative plural present
- cotejaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cotejabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cotejábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cotejabais imperfect indicative plural
- cotejaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cotejar?
- /koteˈxaɾ/
- [ko.t̪eˈxaɾ]
- [kot̪eˈxaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cotejar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cotejar in Spanish?
cotejar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).