esmerar
Spanish, verb/esmeˈɾaɾ/
esmerar is spelled E-S-M-E-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish, the 252,202nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Esmerar is a Spanish verb meaning “to clean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pulir, limpiar, ilustrar”.
What does esmerar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to clean
- 2
to hone, to painstakingly do something
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pulir, limpiar, ilustrar. 2. Reducir un líquido por la evaporación.
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 esmerar
- esmero first-person present singular
- esmeré first-person preterite singular
- esmerado participle past
- esmerando gerund
- esmerada feminine participle past
- esmerados masculine participle past
- esmeradas feminine participle past
- esmeras indicative informal present
- esmerás indicative informal present
- esmera indicative present singular
- esmeramos first-person indicative plural
- esmeráis indicative plural present
- esmeran indicative plural present
- esmeraba first-person imperfect indicative
- esmerabas imperfect indicative second-person
- esmerábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- esmerabais imperfect indicative plural
- esmeraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esmerar?
- /esmeˈɾaɾ/
- [ez.meˈɾaɾ]
- [esmeˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esmerar in Spanish?
esmerar appears about once in every 51 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).