fluctuar
Spanish, verb/fluɡˈtwaɾ/
fluctuar is spelled F-L-U-C-T-U-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 96,067th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fluctuar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fluctuate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Vacilar un cuerpo sobre las aguas por el movimiento agitado de ellas”.
What does fluctuar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fluctuate
- 2
to waver
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vacilar un cuerpo sobre las aguas por el movimiento agitado de ellas. 2. Estar a riesgo de perderse y arruinarse una cosa. 3. Vacilar o dudar en la resolución de una cosa. 4. Cambiar siguiendo una cadencia o progresión pendular.
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 fluctuar
- fluctúo first-person present singular
- fluctué first-person preterite singular
- fluctuado participle past
- u-ú alternation
- fluctuando gerund
- fluctuada feminine participle past
- fluctuados masculine participle past
- fluctuadas feminine participle past
- fluctúas indicative informal present
- fluctuás indicative informal present
- fluctúa indicative present singular
- fluctuamos first-person indicative plural
- fluctuáis indicative plural present
- fluctúan indicative plural present
- fluctuaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fluctuabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fluctuábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fluctuabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fluctuar?
- /fluɡˈtwaɾ/
- [fluɣ̞ˈt̪waɾ]
- /fluɡtuˈaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fluctuar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fluctuar in Spanish?
fluctuar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).