flanquear
Spanish, verb/flankeˈaɾ/
flanquear is spelled F-L-A-N-Q-U-E-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 113,469th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flanquear is a Spanish verb meaning “to flank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Estar colocado al flanco o lado de algo”.
What does flanquear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flank
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Estar colocado al flanco o lado de algo. 2. Proteger los propios flancos. 3. Amenazar los flancos del adversario.
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 flanquear
- flanqueo first-person present singular
- flanqueé first-person preterite singular
- flanqueado participle past
- flanqueando gerund
- flanqueada feminine participle past
- flanqueados masculine participle past
- flanqueadas feminine participle past
- flanqueas indicative informal present
- flanqueás indicative informal present
- flanquea indicative present singular
- flanqueamos first-person indicative plural
- flanqueáis indicative plural present
- flanquean indicative plural present
- flanqueaba first-person imperfect indicative
- flanqueabas imperfect indicative second-person
- flanqueábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- flanqueabais imperfect indicative plural
- flanqueaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flanquear?
- /flankeˈaɾ/
- [flãŋ.keˈaɾ]
- [flãŋkeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flanquear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flanquear in Spanish?
flanquear appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).