encurtir
Spanish, verb/enkuɾˈtiɾ/
encurtir is spelled E-N-C-U-R-T-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written Spanish, the 331,538th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Encurtir is a Spanish verb meaning “to pickle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que ciertos frutos o legumbres tomen el sabor del vinagre y se conserven mucho tiempo teniéndolos en…”.
What does encurtir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pickle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que ciertos frutos o legumbres tomen el sabor del vinagre y se conserven mucho tiempo teniéndolos en este liquido.
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 encurtir
- encurto first-person present singular
- encurtí first-person preterite singular
- encurtido participle past
- encurtiendo gerund
- encurtida feminine participle past
- encurtidos masculine participle past
- encurtidas feminine participle past
- encurtes indicative informal present
- encurtís indicative informal present
- encurte indicative present singular
- encurtimos first-person indicative plural
- encurten indicative plural present
- encurtía first-person imperfect indicative
- encurtías imperfect indicative second-person
- encurtíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- encurtíais imperfect indicative plural
- encurtían imperfect indicative plural
- encurtiste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce encurtir?
- /enkuɾˈtiɾ/
- [ẽŋ.kuɾˈt̪iɾ]
- [ẽŋkuɾˈt̪iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to encurtir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is encurtir in Spanish?
encurtir appears about once in every 93 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).