flotar
Spanish, verb/floˈtaɾ/
flotar is spelled F-L-O-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 29,960th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to float” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sostenerse sin el sustento de un medio sólido, sea sobre un líquido, un gas o en el vacío”.
What does flotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to float
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sostenerse sin el sustento de un medio sólido, sea sobre un líquido, un gas o en el vacío. 2. Por extensión, permear alguna sensación o emoción el ambiente sin limitarse a un aspecto concreto.
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 flotar
- floto first-person present singular
- floté first-person preterite singular
- flotado participle past
- flotando gerund
- flotada feminine participle past
- flotados masculine participle past
- flotadas feminine participle past
- flotas indicative informal present
- flotás indicative informal present
- flota indicative present singular
- flotamos first-person indicative plural
- flotáis indicative plural present
- flotan indicative plural present
- flotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- flotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- flotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- flotabais imperfect indicative plural
- flotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flotar?
- /floˈtaɾ/
- [floˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flotar in Spanish?
flotar appears 1.3 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).