enmarañar
Spanish, verb/emmaɾaˈɲaɾ/
enmarañar is spelled E-N-M-A-R-A-Ñ-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Spanish, the 335,022nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enmarañar is a Spanish verb meaning “to tangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Enredar, revolver una cosa; como el cabello, una madeja de seda, etc”.
What does enmarañar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tangle
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enredar, revolver una cosa; como el cabello, una madeja de seda, etc. 2. Confundir, enredar un asunto haciendo más difícil su buen éxito.
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 enmarañar
- enmaraño first-person present singular
- enmarañé first-person preterite singular
- enmarañado participle past
- enmarañando gerund
- enmarañada feminine participle past
- enmarañados masculine participle past
- enmarañadas feminine participle past
- enmarañas indicative informal present
- enmarañás indicative informal present
- enmaraña indicative present singular
- enmarañamos first-person indicative plural
- enmarañáis indicative plural present
- enmarañan indicative plural present
- enmarañaba first-person imperfect indicative
- enmarañabas imperfect indicative second-person
- enmarañábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- enmarañabais imperfect indicative plural
- enmarañaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enmarañar?
- /emmaɾaˈɲaɾ/
- [ẽm.ma.ɾaˈɲaɾ]
- [ẽmmaɾaˈɲaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enmarañar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enmarañar in Spanish?
enmarañar appears about once in every 95 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).