cribar
Spanish, verb/kɾiˈbaɾ/
cribar is spelled C-R-I-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 158,678th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cribar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sieve, sift” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Por medio de la criba, limpiar el trigo (u otra semilla) del polvo, tierra, neguilla y demás impurezas…”.
What does cribar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sieve, sift
- 2
to screen (e.g., for a disease)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Por medio de la criba, limpiar el trigo (u otra semilla) del polvo, tierra, neguilla y demás impurezas, zarandeando la criba. 2. Pasar una semilla, un mineral u otra materia por la criba, para separar las partes finas de las gruesas. 3. Hacer selección de lo que interesa.
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 cribar
- cribo first-person present singular
- cribé first-person preterite singular
- cribado participle past
- cribando gerund
- cribada feminine participle past
- cribados masculine participle past
- cribadas feminine participle past
- cribas indicative informal present
- cribás indicative informal present
- criba indicative present singular
- cribamos first-person indicative plural
- cribáis indicative plural present
- criban indicative plural present
- cribaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cribabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cribábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cribabais imperfect indicative plural
- cribaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cribar?
- /kɾiˈbaɾ/
- [kɾiˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cribar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cribar in Spanish?
cribar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).