explotar
Spanish, verb/eɡsploˈtaɾ/
explotar is spelled E-X-P-L-O-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,594th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Explotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to exploit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Beneficiar, laborear las minas, u otra cosa de importancia”.
What does explotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exploit
verb
- 1
to explode
Explotó mi PC.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Beneficiar, laborear las minas, u otra cosa de importancia. 2. Sacar todo el partido posible de algo. 3. Abusar, sacar provecho de una persona vulnerable.
verb: 1. Hacer explosión. 2. Dicho de una persona: Exponer espontánea y descontroladamente un sentimiento (especialmente si había sido reprimido). 3. Dicho de una variable: diverger.
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 explotar
- exploto first-person present singular
- exploté first-person preterite singular
- explotado participle past
- explotando gerund
- explotada feminine participle past
- explotados masculine participle past
- explotadas feminine participle past
- explotas indicative informal present
- explotás indicative informal present
- explota indicative present singular
- explotamos first-person indicative plural
- explotáis indicative plural present
- explotan indicative plural present
- explotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- explotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- explotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- explotabais imperfect indicative plural
- explotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce explotar?
- /eɡsploˈtaɾ/
- [eɣ̞s.ploˈt̪aɾ]
- [eksploˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to explotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is explotar in Spanish?
explotar appears 13 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).