cotillear
Spanish, verb/kotiʝeˈaɾ/
cotillear is spelled C-O-T-I-L-L-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 76,156th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cotillear is a Spanish verb meaning “to gossip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cotillear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gossip
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of cotillear
- cotilleo first-person present singular
- cotilleé first-person preterite singular
- cotilleado participle past
- cotilleando gerund
- cotilleada feminine participle past
- cotilleados masculine participle past
- cotilleadas feminine participle past
- cotilleas indicative informal present
- cotilleás indicative informal present
- cotillea indicative present singular
- cotilleamos first-person indicative plural
- cotilleáis indicative plural present
- cotillean indicative plural present
- cotilleaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cotilleabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cotilleábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cotilleabais imperfect indicative plural
- cotilleaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cotillear?
- /kotiʝeˈaɾ/
- [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cotillear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cotillear in Spanish?
cotillear appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).