fracasar
Spanish, verb/fɾakaˈsaɾ/
fracasar is spelled F-R-A-C-A-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,777th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fracasar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fail, flop, lose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “No tener éxito o el resultado deseado”.
What does fracasar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fail, flop, lose
fracasar en algo
- 2
obsoleteto break into pieces
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. No tener éxito o el resultado deseado. 2. Despedazarse un vehículo, especialmente de navegación, contra un obstáculo.
verb: 1. Hacer pedazos algo, destruir.
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 fracasar
- fracaso first-person present singular
- fracasé first-person preterite singular
- fracasado participle past
- fracasando gerund
- fracasada feminine participle past
- fracasados masculine participle past
- fracasadas feminine participle past
- fracasas indicative informal present
- fracasás indicative informal present
- fracasa indicative present singular
- fracasamos first-person indicative plural
- fracasáis indicative plural present
- fracasan indicative plural present
- fracasaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fracasabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fracasábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fracasabais imperfect indicative plural
- fracasaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fracasar?
- /fɾakaˈsaɾ/
- [fɾa.kaˈsaɾ]
- [fɾakaˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fracasar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fracasar in Spanish?
fracasar appears 3.1 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).