emboscar
Spanish, verb/embosˈkaɾ/
emboscar is spelled E-M-B-O-S-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 117,287th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emboscar is a Spanish verb meaning “to ambush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ocultar o esconder uno o varios soldados para atacar por sorpresa”.
What does emboscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ambush
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ocultar o esconder uno o varios soldados para atacar por sorpresa. 2. Esconderse o refugiarse en la espesura del paraje. 3. Ocultarse para sustraerse al cumplimiento de una obligación o responsabilidad.
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 emboscar
- embosco first-person present singular
- embosqué first-person preterite singular
- emboscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- emboscando gerund
- emboscada feminine participle past
- emboscados masculine participle past
- emboscadas feminine participle past
- emboscas indicative informal present
- emboscás indicative informal present
- embosca indicative present singular
- emboscamos first-person indicative plural
- emboscáis indicative plural present
- emboscan indicative plural present
- emboscaba first-person imperfect indicative
- emboscabas imperfect indicative second-person
- emboscábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- emboscabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emboscar?
- /embosˈkaɾ/
- [ẽm.bosˈkaɾ]
- [ẽmbosˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emboscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emboscar in Spanish?
emboscar appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).