desembocar
Spanish, verb/desemboˈkaɾ/
desembocar is spelled D-E-S-E-M-B-O-C-A-R (10 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 32,109th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desembocar is a Spanish verb meaning “to culminate, conclude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Salir como por una boca o estrecho”.
What does desembocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to culminate, conclude
- 2
to flow out
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Salir como por una boca o estrecho. 2. Entrar, desaguar un río, un canal, etc., en otro, en el mar o en un lago. 3. Tener una calle salida a otra, a una plaza o a otro lugar.
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 desembocar
- desemboco first-person present singular
- desemboqué first-person preterite singular
- desembocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- desembocando gerund
- desembocada feminine participle past
- desembocados masculine participle past
- desembocadas feminine participle past
- desembocas indicative informal present
- desembocás indicative informal present
- desemboca indicative present singular
- desembocamos first-person indicative plural
- desembocáis indicative plural present
- desembocan indicative plural present
- desembocaba first-person imperfect indicative
- desembocabas imperfect indicative second-person
- desembocábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- desembocabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desembocar?
- /desemboˈkaɾ/
- [d̪e.sẽm.boˈkaɾ]
- [d̪esẽmboˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desembocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desembocar in Spanish?
desembocar appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).