disuadir
Spanish, verb/diswaˈdiɾ/
disuadir is spelled D-I-S-U-A-D-I-R (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 33,004th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disuadir is a Spanish verb meaning “to dissuade, discourage, talk out of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Convencer a alguien para que no haga algo o para que desista de una decisión”.
What does disuadir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dissuade, discourage, talk out of
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Convencer a alguien para que no haga algo o para que desista de una decisión.
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 disuadir
- disuado first-person present singular
- disuadí first-person preterite singular
- disuadido participle past
- disuadiendo gerund
- disuadida feminine participle past
- disuadidos masculine participle past
- disuadidas feminine participle past
- disuades indicative informal present
- disuadís indicative informal present
- disuade indicative present singular
- disuadimos first-person indicative plural
- disuaden indicative plural present
- disuadía first-person imperfect indicative
- disuadías imperfect indicative second-person
- disuadíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- disuadíais imperfect indicative plural
- disuadían imperfect indicative plural
- disuadiste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disuadir?
- /diswaˈdiɾ/
- [d̪i.swaˈð̞iɾ]
- [d̪iswaˈð̞iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disuadir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disuadir in Spanish?
disuadir 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).