desengañar
Spanish, verb/desenɡaˈɲaɾ/
desengañar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-G-A-Ñ-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 158,678th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desengañar is a Spanish verb meaning “to disabuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sacar del error o del engaño a alguien; hacerle conocer el engaño que creía”.
What does desengañar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disabuse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sacar del error o del engaño a alguien; hacerle conocer el engaño que creía. 2. Quitarle la ilusión o la esperanza a alguien.
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 desengañar
- desengaño first-person present singular
- desengañé first-person preterite singular
- desengañado participle past
- desengañando gerund
- desengañada feminine participle past
- desengañados masculine participle past
- desengañadas feminine participle past
- desengañas indicative informal present
- desengañás indicative informal present
- desengaña indicative present singular
- desengañamos first-person indicative plural
- desengañáis indicative plural present
- desengañan indicative plural present
- desengañaba first-person imperfect indicative
- desengañabas imperfect indicative second-person
- desengañábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- desengañabais imperfect indicative plural
- desengañaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desengañar?
- /desenɡaˈɲaɾ/
- [d̪e.sẽŋ.ɡaˈɲaɾ]
- [d̪esẽŋgaˈɲaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desengañar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desengañar in Spanish?
desengañar 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).