dividir
Spanish, verb/dibiˈdiɾ/
dividir is spelled D-I-V-I-D-I-R (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,966th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dividir is a Spanish verb meaning “to divide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción de separar, cortar en pedazos, para poder distribuir una cosa”.
What does dividir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to divide
- 2
to split
- 3
to split up
- 4
to partition (e.g. a territory)
- 5
to divide
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Acción de separar, cortar en pedazos, para poder distribuir una cosa. 2. Acción de separarse en partes iguales. Operación matemática inversa a la multiplicación, Operación entre dos numeros: dividendo y divisor mediante la cual se calcula el cociente de tal forma que el cociente multiplicado por el divisor es igual al dividendo. 3. Mediar entre dos cosas. 4. Distribuir, repartir entre varios.
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 dividir
- divido first-person present singular
- dividí first-person preterite singular
- dividido participle past
- dividiendo gerund
- dividida feminine participle past
- divididos masculine participle past
- divididas feminine participle past
- divides indicative informal present
- dividís indicative informal present
- divide indicative present singular
- dividimos first-person indicative plural
- dividen indicative plural present
- dividía first-person imperfect indicative
- dividías imperfect indicative second-person
- dividíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- dividíais imperfect indicative plural
- dividían imperfect indicative plural
- dividiste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dividir?
- /dibiˈdiɾ/
- [d̪i.β̞iˈð̞iɾ]
- [d̪iβ̞iˈð̞iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dividir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dividir in Spanish?
dividir appears 8.7 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).