friccionar
Spanish, verb/fɾiɡθjoˈnaɾ/
friccionar is spelled F-R-I-C-C-I-O-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish, the 246,963rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Friccionar is a Spanish verb meaning “to rub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer entrar en contacto dos superficies de modo rápido y repetido, produciendo fricción”.
What does friccionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rub
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer entrar en contacto dos superficies de modo rápido y repetido, produciendo fricción.
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 friccionar
- fricciono first-person present singular
- friccioné first-person preterite singular
- friccionado participle past
- friccionando gerund
- friccionada feminine participle past
- friccionados masculine participle past
- friccionadas feminine participle past
- friccionas indicative informal present
- friccionás indicative informal present
- fricciona indicative present singular
- friccionamos first-person indicative plural
- friccionáis indicative plural present
- friccionan indicative plural present
- friccionaba first-person imperfect indicative
- friccionabas imperfect indicative second-person
- friccionábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- friccionabais imperfect indicative plural
- friccionaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce friccionar?
- /fɾiɡθjoˈnaɾ/
- [fɾiɣ̞.θjoˈnaɾ]
- /fɾiɡsjoˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is friccionar in Spanish?
friccionar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).