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frotar

Spanish, verb/fɾoˈtaɾ/

frotar is spelled F-R-O-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 44,034th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to rub” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Rozar una cosa con otra repetidamente”.

What does frotar mean in English?

verb

  1. 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. Rozar una cosa con otra repetidamente.

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 frotar

  • froto first-person present singular
  • froté first-person preterite singular
  • frotado participle past
  • frotando gerund
  • frotada feminine participle past
  • frotados masculine participle past
  • frotadas feminine participle past
  • frotas indicative informal present
  • frotás indicative informal present
  • frota indicative present singular
  • frotamos first-person indicative plural
  • frotáis indicative plural present
  • frotan indicative plural present
  • frotaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • frotabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • frotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • frotabais imperfect indicative plural
  • frotaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce frotar?

  • /fɾoˈtaɾ/
  • [fɾoˈt̪aɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to frotar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is frotar in Spanish?

frotar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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