descabezar
Spanish, verb/deskabeˈθaɾ/
descabezar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-B-E-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 123,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descabezar is a Spanish verb meaning “to behead; to decapitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does descabezar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to behead; to decapitate
- 2
to remove the top from
- 3
to adjoin
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of descabezar
- descabezo first-person present singular
- descabecé first-person preterite singular
- descabezado participle past
- c-z alternation
- descabezando gerund
- descabezada feminine participle past
- descabezados masculine participle past
- descabezadas feminine participle past
- descabezas indicative informal present
- descabezás indicative informal present
- descabeza indicative present singular
- descabezamos first-person indicative plural
- descabezáis indicative plural present
- descabezan indicative plural present
- descabezaba first-person imperfect indicative
- descabezabas imperfect indicative second-person
- descabezábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- descabezabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descabezar?
- /deskabeˈθaɾ/
- [d̪es.ka.β̞eˈθaɾ]
- /deskabeˈsaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to descabezar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descabezar in Spanish?
descabezar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).