enrarecer
Spanish, verb/enraɾeˈθeɾ/
enrarecer is spelled E-N-R-A-R-E-C-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish, the 246,963rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enrarecer is a Spanish verb meaning “to rarefy (make rare)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer menos denso un cuerpo gaseoso, dilatándolo o dispersándolo”.
What does enrarecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rarefy (make rare)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer menos denso un cuerpo gaseoso, dilatándolo o dispersándolo. 2. Hacer que algo sea escaso, menos abundante, ralo, raro, inusual, peculiar, insólito o poco común. 3. Contaminar la atmósfera o el aire de un lugar específico, especialmente un espacio cerrado.
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 enrarecer
- enrarezco first-person present singular
- enrarecí first-person preterite singular
- enrarecido participle past
- c-zc alternation
- enrareciendo gerund
- enrarecida feminine participle past
- enrarecidos masculine participle past
- enrarecidas feminine participle past
- enrareces indicative informal present
- enrarecés indicative informal present
- enrarece indicative present singular
- enrarecemos first-person indicative plural
- enrarecéis indicative plural present
- enrarecen indicative plural present
- enrarecía first-person imperfect indicative
- enrarecías imperfect indicative second-person
- enrarecíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- enrarecíais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enrarecer?
- /enraɾeˈθeɾ/
- [ẽn.ra.ɾeˈθeɾ]
- /enraɾeˈseɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enrarecer in Spanish?
enrarecer appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).