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diluir

Spanish, verb/diˈlwiɾ/

diluir is spelled D-I-L-U-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 40,689th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diluir is a Spanish verb meaning “to dilute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner una sustancia sólida en un líquido que separa o desune sus partes constituyentes”.

What does diluir mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dilute

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Poner una sustancia sólida en un líquido que separa o desune sus partes constituyentes. 2. Agregarle más líquido a una solución. 3. Volver borrosos los contornos de algo. 4. Debilitar, hacer perder fuerza.

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 diluir

  • diluyo first-person present singular
  • diluí first-person preterite singular
  • diluido participle past
  • diluyendo gerund
  • diluida feminine participle past
  • diluidos masculine participle past
  • diluidas feminine participle past
  • diluyes indicative informal present
  • diluís indicative informal present
  • diluye indicative present singular
  • diluimos first-person indicative plural
  • diluyen indicative plural present
  • diluía first-person imperfect indicative
  • diluías imperfect indicative second-person
  • diluíamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • diluíais imperfect indicative plural
  • diluían imperfect indicative plural
  • diluiste indicative preterite second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce diluir?

  • /diˈlwiɾ/
  • [d̪iˈlwiɾ]
  • /diluˈiɾ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to diluir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is diluir in Spanish?

diluir appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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