descafeinar
Spanish, verb/deskafeiˈnaɾ/
descafeinar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-F-E-I-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written Spanish, the 321,281st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descafeinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to decaffeinate (to remove the caffeine from something, especially coffee)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Reducir el contenido en cafeína del café”.
What does descafeinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to decaffeinate (to remove the caffeine from something, especially coffee)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Reducir el contenido en cafeína del café. 2. Suavizar o atenuar algo violento y peligroso.
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 descafeinar
- descafeíno first-person present singular
- descafeiné first-person preterite singular
- descafeinado participle past
- i-í alternation
- descafeinando gerund
- descafeinada feminine participle past
- descafeinados masculine participle past
- descafeinadas feminine participle past
- descafeínas indicative informal present
- descafeinás indicative informal present
- descafeína indicative present singular
- descafeinamos first-person indicative plural
- descafeináis indicative plural present
- descafeínan indicative plural present
- descafeinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- descafeinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- descafeinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- descafeinabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descafeinar?
- /deskafeiˈnaɾ/
- [d̪es.ka.fei̯ˈnaɾ]
- [d̪eskafejˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descafeinar in Spanish?
descafeinar appears about once in every 87 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).