enredar
Spanish, verb/enreˈdaɾ/
enredar is spelled E-N-R-E-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 44,603rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enredar is a Spanish verb meaning “to entangle, to tangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Meter en la red a uno o alguna cosa, trabándola y revolviéndola para que con dificultad se desembarace y…”.
What does enredar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to entangle, to tangle
- 2
to confuse
- 3
to embroil
- 4
to get tangled up, to become entangled
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Meter en la red a uno o alguna cosa, trabándola y revolviéndola para que con dificultad se desembarace y desate. 2. Tender las redes o armarlas para cazar. 3. Enlazar, entretejer, enmarañar una cosa con otra. 4. Meter discordia o cizaña.
verb: 1. Inquietarse o travesear.
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 enredar
- enredo first-person present singular
- enredé first-person preterite singular
- enredado participle past
- enredando gerund
- enredada feminine participle past
- enredados masculine participle past
- enredadas feminine participle past
- enredas indicative informal present
- enredás indicative informal present
- enreda indicative present singular
- enredamos first-person indicative plural
- enredáis indicative plural present
- enredan indicative plural present
- enredaba first-person imperfect indicative
- enredabas imperfect indicative second-person
- enredábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- enredabais imperfect indicative plural
- enredaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enredar?
- /enreˈdaɾ/
- [ẽn.reˈð̞aɾ]
- [ẽnreˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to enredar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is enredar in Spanish?
enredar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).