exfoliar
Spanish, verb/eɡsfoˈljaɾ/
exfoliar is spelled E-X-F-O-L-I-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish, the 191,875th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exfoliar is a Spanish verb meaning “to exfoliate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Partir una cosa en láminas o escamas”.
What does exfoliar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exfoliate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Partir una cosa en láminas o escamas 2. Quitar de la piel las células muertas
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 exfoliar
- exfolio first-person present singular
- exfolié first-person preterite singular
- exfoliado participle past
- exfoliando gerund
- exfoliada feminine participle past
- exfoliados masculine participle past
- exfoliadas feminine participle past
- exfolias indicative informal present
- exfoliás indicative informal present
- exfolia indicative present singular
- exfoliamos first-person indicative plural
- exfoliáis indicative plural present
- exfolian indicative plural present
- exfoliaba first-person imperfect indicative
- exfoliabas imperfect indicative second-person
- exfoliábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- exfoliabais imperfect indicative plural
- exfoliaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exfoliar?
- /eɡsfoˈljaɾ/
- [eɣ̞s.foˈljaɾ]
- [eksfoˈljaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exfoliar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exfoliar in Spanish?
exfoliar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).