estallar
Spanish, verb/estaˈʝaɾ/
estallar is spelled E-S-T-A-L-L-A-R (8 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 11,540th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estallar is a Spanish verb meaning “to explode, to blow up, to burst” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Romperse algo de golpe por presión interna produciendo gran ruido, por ejemplo como efecto de la pólvora”.
What does estallar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to explode, to blow up, to burst
estallar en llamas
- 2
to crack (a whip)
- 3
to break out, to erupt (said of a revolution, a war, a fire, or similar)
- 4
to break loose
- 5
to blow up, to blow one's top, to explode
- 6
to pop (e.g., a bubble, a balloon, a button, a question)
- 7
to blow up, to set off, to make explode (hacer + estallar)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Romperse algo de golpe por presión interna produciendo gran ruido, por ejemplo como efecto de la pólvora. 2. Expresar de modo súbito y con violencia una emoción fuerte. 3. Comenzar un suceso de modo violento e inesperado. 4. Producir de modo momentáneo un ruido fuerte y áspero, como el de un látigo en el aire.
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 estallar
- estallo first-person present singular
- estallé first-person preterite singular
- estallado participle past
- estallando gerund
- estallada feminine participle past
- estallados masculine participle past
- estalladas feminine participle past
- estallas indicative informal present
- estallás indicative informal present
- estalla indicative present singular
- estallamos first-person indicative plural
- estalláis indicative plural present
- estallan indicative plural present
- estallaba first-person imperfect indicative
- estallabas imperfect indicative second-person
- estallábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- estallabais imperfect indicative plural
- estallaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estallar?
- /estaˈʝaɾ/
- [es.t̪aˈʝaɾ]
- [est̪aˈʝaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to estallar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is estallar in Spanish?
estallar appears 5.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).