elongar
Spanish, verb/elonˈɡaɾ/
elongar is spelled E-L-O-N-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 153,784th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elongar is a Spanish verb meaning “elongate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Estirar, traccionar”.
What does elongar mean in English?
verb
- 1
elongate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Estirar, traccionar. 2. Agregar más unidades a la cadena de un biopolímero.
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 elongar
- elongo first-person present singular
- elongué first-person preterite singular
- elongado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- elongando gerund
- elongada feminine participle past
- elongados masculine participle past
- elongadas feminine participle past
- elongas indicative informal present
- elongás indicative informal present
- elonga indicative present singular
- elongamos first-person indicative plural
- elongáis indicative plural present
- elongan indicative plural present
- elongaba first-person imperfect indicative
- elongabas imperfect indicative second-person
- elongábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- elongabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce elongar?
- /elonˈɡaɾ/
- [e.lõŋˈɡaɾ]
- [elõŋˈgaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to elongar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elongar in Spanish?
elongar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).