embelesar
Spanish, verb/embeleˈsaɾ/
embelesar is spelled E-M-B-E-L-E-S-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish, the 231,957th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embelesar is a Spanish verb meaning “to captivate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Arrebatar, cautivar los sentidos; hacer parar la imaginacion y ánimo de alguien mediante algun objeto que se…”.
What does embelesar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to captivate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arrebatar, cautivar los sentidos; hacer parar la imaginacion y ánimo de alguien mediante algun objeto que se le pone a la vista, o con el artificio de las palabras.
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 embelesar
- embeleso first-person present singular
- embelesé first-person preterite singular
- embelesado participle past
- embelesando gerund
- embelesada feminine participle past
- embelesados masculine participle past
- embelesadas feminine participle past
- embelesas indicative informal present
- embelesás indicative informal present
- embelesa indicative present singular
- embelesamos first-person indicative plural
- embelesáis indicative plural present
- embelesan indicative plural present
- embelesaba first-person imperfect indicative
- embelesabas imperfect indicative second-person
- embelesábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- embelesabais imperfect indicative plural
- embelesaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embelesar?
- /embeleˈsaɾ/
- [ẽm.be.leˈsaɾ]
- [ẽmbeleˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embelesar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embelesar in Spanish?
embelesar appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).